Japanese mafia

Businessxyz · (#1 (**permalink**))

I have an interest in the J mafia is it a real as it is made out on TV ?

Obba3 · (#2 (**permalink**))

I guess it real and the "J maffia" name is Yakuza.

Its a criminal organisation but they have a puplic profile anyway.
I have heard verry strong rumors that japans strongest and biggest buissnes companies actaully cont in bribes to the yakuza in their year budged.
And thats not a "under the table thing".

Yakuzan as i said have a high profile.

Actually i remember a article from a Gamer magazine some time ago.
When the reporter actually went to japan to meet with some Yakuza members to play some "Yakuza 3" and then wrote down their thoughts about the game.

And that was no problem at all. They went full out that they were the Yakuza and said their real name and stuff like that.

And if you walk in the more distance destrics you can see sign and emblems telling you were the Yakuza are.

Somesay that Yakuzan has a big roll in the Japanese economy and even a roll in the world economy.

In someway they are honorable organization. If you want to leave Yakuzan you are free to leave, you are not getting stalked or spyed on. But you need to cut of you pinky finger so the people around you know what you have taken part in, and that you never will forget.

Im not admire them but im not say there are as bad like the italian maffia or something like that.

MMM · (#3 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Businessxyz

I have an interest in the J mafia is it a real as it is made out on TV ?

Is it as real? No, of course not. Was cowboy life like it was on the old TV shows? Is CSI really like what a crime scene investigation is like?

Of course it is more romanticized and dramatic on TV and movies compared to real life.

steel · (#4 (**permalink**))

A memo on recommended readings from a friend (Simon):

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Recommended reading:

Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan by Robert S Whiting

Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition by Kaplan & Dubro

Yakuza Moon: The True Story of a Gangster's Daughter - manga version; by Shoko Tendo

Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld by Dr. Junichi Saga, MD

Simon does not however recommend 'Tokyo Vice' by Jake Adelstein

. He sent me this link:

wolframite comments on Underage Japanese girls learning to sell themselves online

Google

Obba3 · (#5 (**permalink**))

If someone bothers to read i found the article i was talking about.

Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza - Boing Boing

BobbyCooper · (#6 (**permalink**))

It's so fascinating to me personally, that one of the biggest and most prestige Crime Organizations in the World, come out of a land with some of the lowest crime rates in the entire World.

Perhaps the Yakuza are not one of the biggest.. but the Name is Huge around the World.