A Life in Our Hands: Community, Crime, and Punishment - On Jesse Ball's 'Silence Once Begun'

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS - 22 MARCH 2014

IN AND AROUND the Japanese fishing village of Sakai, in Osaka prefecture, a community’s elderly citizens are disappearing without a trace. Years later, after the community has tried and jailed (and worse) a man who confessed to the apparent crimes, a journalist named Jesse Ball sets out to write a book about what actually happened.

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