Amy Yoshida-Plambeck

Amy Yoshida-Plambeck is a freelance reporter, editor, and data journalist based in Tokyo, Japan. Her most recent project has been writing and reporting for the Campside Media and Sony Music podcast, The Evaporated: Gone With The Gods.

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HUNTED

Subway Creep’s Desperate Plea to Cops Set Off Vigilante Saga

Three men have been nabbed for running an alleged extortion ring in Japan. Their targets? Suspected “upskirt photographers.”

Jake Adelstein

‘HUGE SHAME’

How an Exposé on a Prolific Pop Pedophile Was Covered Up

The founding father of J-pop molested young talents for years. When the BBC revealed his crimes in an explosive documentary, Japan’s mainstream media didn’t want to know.

Jake Adelstein