The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her

A Tokyo Romance (2018) is Ian Buruma’s memoir of his six years in Japan. He moved to Tokyo in 1975 at the age of 23, studied cinema at Nichidai in Ekoda, and met figures such as Donald Richie, Akira K...