Membership of Japan’s yakuza crime gangs falls to all-time low Agence France-Presse in Tokyo theguardian.com, Thursday 6 March 2014 07.25 EST Members of the largest yakuza group, the Yamaguchi-gumi, at a funeral in the 1980s. Photograph: AP The… Read More ›
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Stop lending money to the yakuza, FSA tells Mizuho
Criminals’ bank of choice: Pedestrians walk by a sign for Mizuho Bank in Tokyo. Financial regulators on Friday ordered the mega-bank to stop lending money to yakuza. | BLOOMBERG AFP-JIJI Sep 27, 2013 Online: Sep 27, 2013 Print: Sep 28,… Read More ›
Woman takes on Yakuza godfather over protection racket
Restaurant owner in Nagoya is seeking £120,000 from crime boss in landmark case Paul Gallagher The Observer, Saturday 24 August 2013 07.23 EDT Kenichi Shinoda, the boss of the Yamaguchi-gumi, photographed as he left jail in 2011. Photograph:… Read More ›
What every stressed yakuza mobster needs: A morale-boosting magazine
In-house tabloid offers tips on board games, haikus and a letter from the Yamaguchi-gumi outfit’s godfather David McNeill Wednesday, 10 July 2013 Japan’s biggest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, has produced an in-house tabloid magazine with features on fishing and board… Read More ›
It’s not easy being a Yakuza boss
By Jake Adelstein — Oct 15 These days the price of a standard civilian hit-job can run as high as $2 million. That’s not the price to get the job done — that’s the price if one of your underlings… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 