The show is an accurate representation of how the yakuza see themselves and their culture.
- Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University, and Researcher at Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University
The country has a long history of ethnic and religious conflict, but the worst economic crisis in decades has brought protesters together.
The political comeback of the Rajapaksa family has left some Sri Lankans worried.
A new chapter of violence has begun in Sri Lanka and old divisions may yet again escalate further.
It’s a tourist paradise. But behind the scenes, democracy in the Maldives has long been in peril.
Could the country now face a return to civil war?
Fed by colonialism, civil war and online hate speech, Buddhist extremism in Sri Lanka has been on the march for decades.
Swedish researcher Andreas Johansson interviewed 30 members of a Japanese Yakuza clan in 2015.
The Maldives’ increasingly polarised religious politics are coming apart.
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