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Mon (crest) Yamaguchi-gumi (六代目山口組, Rokudaime Yamaguchi-gumi) The Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest yakuza family, with about 8,200 members. "Yamabishi" (山菱) Sumiyoshi-kai (住吉会) The Sumiyoshi-kai is the second-largest yakuza family, with 4,200 members. Sumiyoshi-kai is a confederation of smaller yakuza groups. Its current head ...
The number of regular members decreased with the implementation of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members (暴力団員による不当な行為の防止等に関する法律) in 1992, [33] and the total number of members and quasi-members began to decline rapidly with the implementation of the yakuza exclusion ordinances in all 47 prefectures around 2010. Between ...
Sep 15, 2015 · The notorious yakuza Yoshio Kodama financed the Liberal Democratic Party in its early years, noted in “Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld” by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro. The Minister of ...
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Yakuza Group Structure. The typical structure of a yakuza group. Artwork by @marikurisato. Illustration by Mari Kurisato. （親分・おやぶん）, (子分・こぶん): group elders, group underlings. Literally, ‘father role’ and ‘child role’. （組長・くみちょう）: family head or boss. (最高幹部・さいこうかんぶ ...
Nov 5, 2019 · The yakuza's origins are older than you might think. In the early 1700s, outcasts in Japan began organizing into groups. The idea was that one outcast might be treated like trash but if you have a bunch of outcasts who have each other's backs and are willing to do illegal, sometimes violent things to protect members of the group, suddenly they don't get treated so badly by the general populace ...
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Oct 2, 2024 · His first book, Tokyo Vice, which was adapted into a television series in 2022, offers an in-depth look at the challenges of reporting on organized crime and maintaining complex relationships with Yakuza members. In his second book, The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld, Adelstein chronicles this decline in power. In the second podcast episode of our series Underworlds with Mark ...
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Aug 6, 2022 · Updated August 17, 2022. Known informally as the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza are a 400-year-old criminal syndicate that carries out everything from human trafficking to real estate sales. When news broke that the Yakuza were among the first on the scene after Japan’s devastating 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, it caused a minor sensation ...
