Posted on 07/10/2013 1:08:07 AM PDT by rjbemsha
Japan’s biggest yakuza organised crime group has published a magazine for its members that includes a poetry page and senior gangsters’ fishing diaries, reports said Wednesday.
The eight-page publication has been distributed among the Yamaguchi-gumi, a sprawling syndicate believed to have about 27,700 members, in a bid to strengthen unity in the group, the daily Sankei Shimbun reported.
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"The Yamaguchi-gumi makes up more than 40 percent of the nation’s organised criminals, but it lost 3,300 members in 2012, the agency said."
I’ll take Japanese “gangster” any day - they can have our real gangsters.
I have a book on this topic, and it seems the Yakuza operate fairly brazenly and publicly in Japan, basically like an unfortunate reality and part of society. Even their businesses/loan shark buildings are identified with big signs.
They’re not angels though. They’re involved in the sex-trade. And if you are a foreign woman in Japan, be careful lest you catch the eye of one of these people, and get “disappeared” and shipped to some brothel.
By the way, the link is no good. I commented before going forward to read the whole thing! It takes me to the FR posting screen.
I remember seeing a report on tv, years ago, where a former Prime Minister actually oversaw the funeral arrangements for a “Godfather”.
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