‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza

from The Audio Long Read · host The Guardian

Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her By Sean Williams. Read by Ami Okumura Jones. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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