Blog Feed: Yakuza - Japanese Mafia

Yakuza Tattoos

Published on 2006-07-27 16:48:00

It'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 > read more

Kodama – The Peace Maker

Published on 2006-07-27 16:45:00

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 occupation, placed in the same section as cabinet officers, military, and ultranationalists. He himself was part of the > read more

Organizations like Yakuza

Published on 2006-07-27 16:44:00

Italy 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. > read more

Members of yakuza organization

Published on 2006-07-27 16:43:00

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 anyway. Yakuza takes care of the misfits in the society. Yakuza members can be youth that been abandoned by th > read more

Structure of Yakuza

Published on 2006-07-27 16:41:00

It 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 in > read more

Yakuza Current Activities

Published on 2006-07-27 16:39:00

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 like their counterparts of the Italian mafia and Chinese triads. Yakuza organizations often have an office with a > read more

Yakuza Rituals

Published on 2006-07-27 16:30:00

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 tip of the little finger got cut off, which damage the hand and the person could not hold his sword as well as bef > read more

Post-War Yakuza: Gurentai

Published on 2006-07-27 16:28:00

As 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 grou > read more

Yakuza American Influence

Published on 2006-07-27 16:28:00

Yakuza 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 > read more

Tekiya and Bakuto

Published on 2006-07-27 16:27:00

More 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 gro > read more