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Sep 15, 2015 · The yakuza are not outlawed; they are regulated and monitored. Many of their money-making activities are illegal but they also run legitimate enterprises.
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Jan 30, 2023 · Contrarily, the yakuza are a confederation of criminal syndicates active throughout Japan. According to Japanese law, their status is not illegal: they have offices and a yakuza presence is still...
Dec 3, 2020 · In recent years, foreign reporters in Tokyo have written about the decline of Japanese organized crime – the yakuza – owing to the passage of new anti-yakuza regulations. They’ve predicted the eventual fading away of the country’s unique criminal subculture.
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Nov 26, 2021 · This Japanese mafia was rich, much feared, and virtually untouchable. But now their numbers, money and power have dwindled. There are only 23,000 Yakuzas left today, and they are older and poorer...
Aug 24, 2021 · BBC. A court in south-western Japan has sentenced the head of a powerful crime syndicate to death by hanging. The court in the city of Fukuoka found that Nomura Satoru, aged 74, had ordered four...
Sep 29, 2015 · And yet membership of the yakuza— as Japan's crime syndicates are known — is not technically illegal. Finding a mob hangout requires little more than a telephone book. Tokyo’s richest crime...
May 19, 2024 · The number of arrested yakuza members in 2023 declined to 9610, compared with 22,495 in 2014, police said. Yakuza crackdowns have driven many members to quit and sent others underground.
