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Aug 22, 2012 · Ramona Martinez. In the West, there's the mafia. In Japan, it's the yakuza. The yakuza is an integral part of society but — unlike other crime organizations — it doesn't operate entirely in...
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A mafia family has a Don as head, with one or more Capo’s as Vice Presidents. Each Yakuza family has a chairman. There can be different smaller clans with their own leaders, who are in turn loyal to one chairman and one family.
Mafia and Yakuza are both organized crime syndicates that have gained notoriety for their involvement in illegal activities such as drug trafficking, extortion, and money laundering. However, there are some key differences between the two groups.
With those huge caveats aside, and acknowledging that all these situations are nuanced, the Yakuza overall doesn't connect to the idea of "ousider capitalism" the same way as the US mafia. Yakuza traces it's origins to a class of merchant/traders called tekiya and bakuto who arose in the Edo period.
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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Apr 23, 2018 · Despite palling around with a small, Hiroshima-based crime family and embedding himself in a gang war that ropes in yakuza, Chinese triad, and Korean mafia groups alike, Kiryu's final journey...
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Nov 5, 2019 · Plenty of countries have organized crime syndicates. There's the Italian Mafia, the Russian mob, the Latin American drug cartels — even the ever-so polite Canadians have a flourishing underworld. But perhaps none of them have the same aura of mystery and fear as the infamous Japanese yakuza.
