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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. The yakuza….
Oct 2, 2024 · And one of the reasons the Yakuza are so much better about helping out at disasters is they have a huge amount of wealth to tap into without any red tape. And the other thing is, unlike the Japanese government, people don’t rotate out of their positions.
- Treat your ‘oyabun’ with respect. In yakuza gangs, there’s a structure called “oyabun-kobun” that you’d be foolish to disobey. Oyabun refers to the “father” and kobun to his loyal “son”.
- Don’t steal from the everyday man. The romanticised vision of the yakuza paints them as Robin Hood-like figures, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor; committing white-collar crimes while helping everyday people when they’re in need.
- Don’t disrupt the harmony of the gang or touch the partner of a fellow member. Being in the yakuza is like being part of a brotherhood. Once you don the hallmarks of a Japanese gangster – tattoos from head-to-toe and a half pinky – it’s a ride or die situation.
- Never involve yourself with drugs. Although the initiation into the yakuza involves the new son drinking sake with their oyabun, when it comes to drug dealing and drug use, the majority of yakuza gangs are staunchly against it.
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
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.
Nov 5, 2019 · Considering the yakuza go around killing people, it's weird that cops spend some of their time attempting to keep the gangsters from drinking sake. But the yakuza's formal sakazuki ceremony is so important in underworld culture that police try to ban it, reports Kyoto Journal.
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Mar 8, 2024 · The Yakuza, often known as the “gokudo” or “Japanese mafia,” is a well-known criminal organization in Japan with a long and complicated history. While they are involved in a variety of illicit activities such as gambling, prostitution, and drug trafficking, the Yakuza also play a unique and contradictory role in Japanese culture, which ...
