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Oct 10, 2012 · Japan’s notorious homegrown mafia, the yakuza, is different. Sure they are a gang, but to compare them to Colombian drug lords or the Bloods or Crips of Los Angeles is not fair. Operations, publicity, and even acceptance of yakuza are on a different level than other criminal enterprises.
Jan 16, 2024 · The yakuza is dominated by men and leaves only informal roles to women. Typically a woman involved with the yakuza might be an anesan, a boss’ wife who takes care of young affiliates and mediates...
Oct 2, 2024 · The Yakuza, Japan’s notorious organized crime syndicates, have long wielded considerable influence over local communities, politics and the criminal underworld. Though they occupy a unique place in Japanese society, their power is gradually waning.
Jan 17, 2024 · The yakuza is dominated by men and leaves only informal roles to women. Typically a woman involved with the yakuza might be an anesan, a boss’ wife who takes care of young affiliates and mediates between them and her husband. Wives and partners of the members support the group in a peripheral way.
Dec 3, 2020 · It’s true that those rules prohibiting all dealings providing financial benefit to organized crime have inconvenienced some gangsters at the bottom of the yakuza pyramid and reduced the numbers of formal yakuza members.
- Grant Newsham
Sep 15, 2015 · Last month, Japan’s largest crime group split into two main factions. But what is the yakuza, how much influence do they wield, and what could this split mean?
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Gang members rarely get into trouble with residents at resorts. When they go on holiday, the yakuza are cheerful, talkative, and active - "the playboys" - and they pay well, making them an enjoyable lot.
