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1. www.smh.com.au › world › asiaYakuza are in decline. A new type of criminal is emerging ...

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   May 19, 2024 · But gang violence in a number of neighbourhoods, including the 2007 fatal shooting of Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Ito during his election campaign, have since led the government to tighten gun control ...

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     The end of the Yakuza in Japan? An aging mafia fails to attract young people • FRANCE 24 English

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     The Japanese Yakuza - Most Dangerous & Powerful Gangs In The World

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     The History of the Yakuza and the Japanese Mafia

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3. theconversation.com › yakuza-battle-chinese-gangsYakuza battle Chinese gangs for control of Japan’s criminal ...

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   Jan 30, 2023 · The public perceives non-yakuza groups to be more violent and lacking a moral code. Gangs based on ethnic kinship (notably Iranian, Nigerian and Chinese) have been active in Japan since the...

4. www.grunge.com › 160172 › yakuza-the-truth-behindYakuza: The Truth Behind Japan's Massive Crime Syndicate

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   Nov 5, 2019 · Lots of countries have organized crime syndicates, but perhaps none of them quite compare to Japan's yakuza. The yakuza are extremely violent, but they also hide in plain sight and many are known to the government. Here's the story behind the yakuza.

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5. globalinitiative.net › analysis › the-last-yakuza-aThe last Yakuza: A life in the Japanese underworld, with ...

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   Oct 2, 2024 · There were some Yakuza who also write books, very much skipping over the actual money-making part and focusing a lot on the nobility, the culture, the gang wars, and tales of glory and violence. But because the Yakuza were so omnipresent and so part of Japanese society and so darn organized, studying them was easy.

6. apjjf.org › 2012/10/7 › Andrew-Rankin21st-Century Yakuza: Recent Trends in Organized Crime in ...

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   Feb 11, 2012 · The most violent yakuza gang of this century so far is the Kudō-kai in Fukuoka. The Kudō-kai was responsible for the attacks on the house of Prime Minister Abe.

7. www.cnn.com › 2015/09/15 › asiaThe yakuza: Inside Japan’s murky criminal underworld | CNN

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   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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   Are Chinese crime gangs related to Yakuza?

   • Police note ‘a very close association between Chinese crime gangs and the yakuza’ (NPA 2011b:28). Gangs of Chinese thieves work in conjunction with the yakuza, who, for a cut of the profits, offer information and logistical support (e.g. by directing the thieves to houses of wealthy persons).

   Recent Trends in Organized Crime in Japan: Yakuza vs the Police

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   Does the Yakuza still run Japan's criminal underworld?

   • But it should not mask the reality that, for the foreseeable future at least, the yakuza still runs Japan’s criminal underworld. Japan’s traditional mafia organisation, the yakuza, has become almost respectable, leaving space for more violent Chinese gangs to muscle in on their turf.

   Yakuza battle Chinese gangs for control of Japan’s criminal underworld

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   Why did Yakuza ask Chinese gang for a fee?

   • The yakuza were asking the Chinese gang for a fee to allow them to operate in the area. According to Hirosue Noboru, one of the few experts on organised crime in Japan, some yakuza groups subsequently issued a warning to their members not to get involved with the Chinese mafia, because of their penchant for violence.

   Yakuza battle Chinese gangs for control of Japan’s criminal underworld

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   What does a yakuza gang do?

   • Yakuza gangs also cooperate with other Asian crime gangs in trafficking people, pirated software, guns, drugs, and illegal chemicals, to Japan, and in smuggling stolen property (in particular, stolen vehicles) out of Japan for sale abroad.

   21st-Century Yakuza: Recent Trends in Organized Crime in Japan ~Part 1

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   What happened to yakuza gangs in Japan?

   • It was brought to a close by a peace deal brokered by another large yakuza clan, the Tokyo-based Inagawa-kai. But the severity of the violence led to the introduction of more severe anti-yakuza laws in 1992. Members of Yamaguchi-gumi, believed to be Japan’s most powerful yakuza gang, bow to their boss.

   Yakuza battle Chinese gangs for control of Japan’s criminal underworld

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   Is Yakuza a big problem in Japan?

   • Western journalists who write about the yakuza often state that the yakuza population is many times the strength of the American Mafia at its peak.12 This is misleading, as it implies that organized crime is a bigger problem in Japan than in the US.

   21st-Century Yakuza: Recent Trends in Organized Crime in Japan ~Part 1

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9. apjjf.org › 2012/10/7 › Andrew-RankinRecent Trends in Organized Crime in Japan: Yakuza vs the ...

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   Feb 11, 2012 · Police note ‘a very close association between Chinese crime gangs and the yakuza’ (NPA 2011b:28). Gangs of Chinese thieves work in conjunction with the yakuza, who, for a cut of the profits, offer information and logistical support (e.g. by directing the thieves to houses of wealthy persons).