Yakuza  Tattoos Yakuza Tattoos

It's usual within yakuza circuits to tattoo themselves, usually is it their clan's badges that they have all over their body. The or...

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Kodama – The Peace Maker Kodama – The Peace Maker

The man who brought peace between many of the yakuza factions was named Yoshio Kodama. Kodama was in jail for the early part of the occupati...

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Organizations like Yakuza Organizations like Yakuza

Italy has the La Cosa Nostra . America has the Mafia . The Irish and Jews have their own crime organizations in America. Southeast Asia has ...

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Members of yakuza organization Members of yakuza organization

For the yakuza it doesn´t matter were you comes from, which country or from which class of society you belongs to, you can become a member a...

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Structure of Yakuza Structure of Yakuza

It exists two types of yakuza, clan- yakuza and freelance yakuza . Freelance yakuza Freelancing yakuza is a yakuza that not commit any...

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Yakuza Rituals Yakuza Rituals

Yubitsume , or finger-cutting, is a form of penance or apology. If a gambler couldn't pay back a debt or something like that the persons...

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Yakuza American Influence Yakuza American Influence

Yakuza became influenced by the American gangster- movies and began to dress in black suits with white shirts, black sunglasses and cropped ...

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Post-War Yakuza: Gurentai Post-War Yakuza: Gurentai

As Japan began to industrialise and urbanization got underway, a third group of yakuza called gurentai began to emerge (the name gurentai w...

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Tekiya and Bakuto Tekiya and Bakuto

More directly, the origin of most modern yakuza organizations can be traced to two groups which emerged in 18th century Japan: tekiya (peddl...

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Yakuza Origin and history Yakuza Origin and history

The term "Yakuza" comes from a Japanese card game, Oicho-Kabu (played with hanafuda or kabufuda cards), and means "good for n...

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What is Yakuza ? What is Yakuza ?

Yakuza also known as gokudō , are members of traditional organized crime groups in Japan. Today, the yakuza are one of the largest organiz...

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Why a blog about Yakuza ? Why a blog about Yakuza ?

As you already know when you create something, it must be something that you want to know more, something you like, etc.So I decided to know...

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Yakuza Current Activities Yakuza Current Activities

Much of the current activities of the yakuza can be understood in the light of their feudal origin. First, they are not a secret society lik...

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