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good-for-nothing, yakuza:ya,eight(from Old Japanese) +ku,nine(from Early Middle Chinesekuw'(also the source of Mandarinjiǔ,nine), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan*d-ku; akin to Tibetandgu) +za, alteration ofsan,three(from Middle Chinesesam; also the source of Mandarinsān; seesampan)...
The Yakuza in Japan has links that extend as far back as 400 years to Edo era. But their days of protecting the weak against the strong are long gone. Today, the Yakuza is a criminal network with nearly 80,000 members operating in 22 crime syndicates, and raking in billions of dollars...
The yakuza, Japan’s infamous organised crime syndicates, have gone into a death spiral in recent years and Jake Adelstein says it is partly due to an incident at a sumo… Dark Side of the SunFeaturedNewsOn the RecordPoliticsUnderground EconomyWork Culture ...
The Yakuza, Japan's organised crime syndicates, are a dying breed. Their members are aging and the government of Japan has launched a large-scale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all. But who are the Yakuza? The cancer of a...See more ...
yakuza- organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises diet- a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan) prefecture- the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire) ...
The largest yakuza syndicates operating today are the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi, which includes about half of all active yakuza in Japan; the Sumiyoshi-kai, which originated in Osaka and boasts about 20,000 members; and the Inagawa-kai, out of Tokyo and Yokohama, with 15,000 members. The ...
Yakuza 6 ist das erste Yakuza-Spiel der aktuellen Generation, das von Grund auf für die Hardware der aktuellen Generation entwickelt wurde – so wird die kriminelle Unterwelt Japans mit detaillierter Grafik, lebensechten Animationen, neuer Physik-Engine, interaktiven Fassaden, bruchlosen Über...
Yakuza 6 ist das erste Yakuza-Spiel der aktuellen Generation, das von Grund auf für die Hardware der aktuellen Generation entwickelt wurde – so wird die kriminelle Unterwelt Japans mit detaillierter Grafik, lebensechten Animationen, neuer Physik-Engine, interaktiven Fassaden, bruchlosen Über...
Behind a bloody veil of mystery, the puppetmasters of the Yakuza secretly control Japan. Yet for all their power, the Yakuza are governed by their own codes of loyalty and honor, and there are those who are seen not as criminals, but ...See more Read more: Plot summary Director ...