Gonzalez Maruyama

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is a journalist, travel writer, editor, YouTuber, and researcher from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. He also uses the pen name Yusuke Maruyama.

After completing his undergraduate and graduate studies at Kokugakuin University, he worked for a publishing company before going independent. As a freelance journalist, he has been covering the Japanese underworld and dangerous areas overseas, and calls himself a "crime journalist. He also has experience as an editor, working on various projects and editing books on business, international politics, and speech. He has received a lot of media exposure, including talk events, television and radio. His nickname is "Marugon". He is a regular guest on "Crazy Journey". where he and Taketoshi Sato make top-class appearances.

Maruyama is an expert in martial arts, and in his writings, he reveals that he stayed in Thailand in his twenties and trained at a Muay Thai gym. He also states that his base for martial arts is Judo and Daiko Juku. He has a deep knowledge of overseas culture, history, and dangerous areas, and regularly travels to Asia and Africa, publishing travelogues in magazines and books, besides specializes in undercover reporting, both legal and illegal, and has published works on the underworld under the name Yusuke Maruyama.

As an active book and magazine editor, he works under a different name, as well as under the name Yusuke Arai. He states that his goal is to be like the writer Hideyuki Takano. In February 2010, he and travel writer Yoichi Arashi launched the "Kaigai Black Road podcast" an online radio station that provides travel information and other information, and he is also active as a radio personality. In April 2015, he became a co-researcher at the Center for Academic Resources, Kokugakuin University.