The Japanese Police Department Diet: 20 Yakuza A Month
According to this month’s Jitsuwajidai, a yakuza fanzine, and other sources, late last year the National Police Agency sent out a notice to every Prefectural Police Headquarters, notifying them that they expected each police department to arrest no less than 20 yakuza a month. Even if you estimate the number of yakuza members in Japan at [...]
TEPCO Ties To The Yakuza: Gone? Police Sources Still Skeptical.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the monolithic corporation that controls all electric power in Greater Tokyo, and was responsible for a triple meltdown at their nuclear power plant in Fukushima (March 11th-March 15th) pledged on July 19th (2011), that they would try to keep organized crime members (yakuza) from participating in the reconstruction of the [...]
“No one is safe from the new yakuza.” ABC’s stellar documentary.
Child pornography, along with prostitution and drugs, allows the Yakuza – Japans 80 000 strong mafia – to rake in 50 billion dollars a year.
October 1st: Nationwide in Japan Anti-Yakuza Laws Go Into Effect: “Do Tell, We Won’t Ask.”
The new laws criminalize profit-sharing with the yakuza or paying them off. Both the yakuza and those who use them face severe punishment for illegal activity. The autumn of the yakuza in Japanese society has begun.
The New Sex-Ed: Yakuza Awareness Classes
“Unprotected contact with organized crime can be bad for your life. Just say no.”