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

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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  From the archive: Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy…

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  As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it inc…

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  ‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from…

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  From the archive: Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped is…

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  Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan

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  ‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed

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  From the archive: Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-y…

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  After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is…

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  Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype

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  From the archive:‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at J…

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  ‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian c…

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  On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Afric…

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  From the archive: Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the lea…

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  How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – n…

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  Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voti…