Beaten and turned out to turn tricks, she was on track for a violent death when eagle-eyed cops recognized she and her ...

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

She recalls standing handcuffed outside of a sheriff's squad car, having just been raped on the roadside. The deputy handed her a stack of napkins from a McDonald’s where they had stopped to get a ...