Jerry MathersJerry Mathers is the granddaddy of all washed-up celebrities. For all intents and purposes, he was the "Dustin Diamond" of the 1950s, reaching the pinnacle of his life before he even hit age 15 when he starred as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver on the hit TV show "Leave It To Beaver" from 1957-1963. Her…
Jeremy MillerJeremy Miller was a child actor playing the role of “Ben Seaver” on the hit TV show “Growing Pains” between 1985 and 1992. He was the youngest child in the fictional Seaver family and chosen because the show's producers though he was a cute kid:Apparently the producers weren't the only one who thoug…
Taran Noah SmithTaran Noah Smith was a child actor playing the role of “Mark Taylor” on “Home Improvement” between 1991 and 1999. Home Improvement fans often couldn’t remember his real name, and instead affectionately referred to him as “the ugly kid on Home Improvement.”He was only 7 years old when Home Improvemen…
Pauly ShorePauly Shore is a stand-up comedian and actor who rose to stardom in the mid-1990s overcoming his troll-like looks and incredibly unfunny persona. He started out on the MTV show “Totally Pauly.” “Totally Pauly” ran for 4 years and then Shore segued into movies, starring in a minor box-office hit “Enc…
Dennis HaskinsDennis Haskins played "Mr. Belding" on the TV shows "Good Morning Miss Bliss," "Saved By The Bell," and "Saved By The Bell: The New Class" between 1987 and 2000. Here's a picture of Dennis Haskins from his early days on Saved By The Bell:When Saved By The Bell went off the air in 2000 Haskins strugg…
Michael OliverMichael Oliver is the first washed up celebrity I will review. You may remember Oliver as the child actor who played "Junior" in the early 90s movies "Problem Child" and "Problem Child 2." This is a picture of Oliver from his Problem Child days:I would have thought that Oliver would have parlayed hi…
Index of Washed Up CelebritiesAlley, KirstieAngeles, JackBeckham, BriceBerry, ChuckBialik, MayimBonaduce, DannyBonsall, BrianBrancato, LilloBridges, ToddBrissette, TiffanyBryan, Zachary TyBurke, ChrisCall, BrandonCanseco, JoseCarrot Top (Scott Thompson)Clay, Andrew DiceColeman, GaryCooksey, DannyCreel, LeannaCulkin, MacaulayDiam…
Yakuza TattoosIt's usual within yakuza circuits to tattoo themselves, usually is it their clan's badges that they have all over their body. The origin of the yakuza tattoo comes from the Bakuto. They usually tattooed a black ring around the arm for each crime they committed. Finally it became a symbol of strength…
Kodama – The Peace MakerThe man who brought peace between many of the yakuza factions was named Yoshio Kodama.Kodama was in jail for the early part of the occupation, placed in the same section as cabinet officers, military, and ultranationalists. He himself was part of the ultranationalist group Kenkoku-kai (Association o…
Organizations like YakuzaItaly has the La Cosa Nostra.America has the Mafia.The Irish and Jews have their own crime organizations in America.Southeast Asia has the Triads.China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have the Tong.…
Members of yakuza organizationFor 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 anyway. Yakuza takes care of the misfits in the society. Yakuza members can be youth that been abandoned by their parents, youths that not managed the high press…
Structure of YakuzaIt exists two types of yakuza, clan- yakuza and freelance yakuza.Freelance yakuzaFreelancing yakuza is a yakuza that not commit any bigger crimes and belongs to a little group of hustlers. They have however some difficulties to survive or not come into jail, because the clan- yakuza not allows …
Yakuza RitualsYubitsume, 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 tip of the little finger got cut off, which damage the hand and the person could not hold his sword as well as before. Also that way other people could see if a per…
Yakuza American InfluenceYakuza became influenced by the American gangster- movies and began to dress in black suits with white shirts, black sunglasses and cropped hairYakuza became tougher and more violent, the swords was history, now was it firearms that counted. Now were it not just player and storekeepers that became e…
Post-War Yakuza: GurentaiAs Japan began to industrialise and urbanization got underway, a third group of yakuza called gurentai began to emerge (the name gurentai was not given until after World War II).In short, a gurentai is a gang in a much more traditional sense, a group of young unruly thugs who peddle their violence …
Tekiya and BakutoMore directly, the origin of most modern yakuza organizations can be traced to two groups which emerged in 18th century Japan: tekiya (peddlers) and bakuto (gamblers). Although the modern yakuza has diversified, some gangs still identify with one group or the other. For example, a gang whose primary…
Yakuza Origin and historyThe term "Yakuza" comes from a Japanese card game, Oicho-Kabu (played with hanafuda or kabufuda cards), and means "good for nothing". It comes from Japan's counterpart to Black Jack, Oicho- Kabu. The generally difference between the both cardgames are that in Oicho- Kabu the cards rate shall be 19 i…
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 organized crime phenomena in the world. In the Western press they are sometimes called the "Japanese mafia," by analogy with other traditionally Italian-Sicilian organi…
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 more about this amazing power, named Yakuza, and I decided to learn, and what I learn I'll post in that blog.Maybe with time someone will find my blog quite in…
Yakuza Current ActivitiesMuch of the current activities of the yakuza can be understood in the light of their feudal origin. First, they are not a secret society like their counterparts of the Italian mafia and Chinese triads. Yakuza organizations often have an office with a wooden board on the front door, openly displaying…