What's it like to open a book and read an account of yourself being gunned down on the streets of Akasaka?
"It's a legitimate concern," admits Forbes' Tokyo bureau chief Benjamin Fulford, an investigative journalist who has learned to watch for warning signs that he's on the verge of displeasing a powerful, ruthless organization.
Once, Fulford said, a yakuza boss actually threatened to convert him into kamaboko (a staple food made from processed fish).
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