There are thought to be nearly 100,000 Yakuza members in Japan. When they enlist in individual gangs they are taken to a secret location where they are trained in hand-to-hand combat and meditation.
But the ex-yakuza had no document showing he left a gang because the gang itself had disbanded. The man wrote a document for police saying he wanted to wash his hands of a life of crime now that ...
As far as hand-to-hand combat goes ... between getting clobbered and overcoming a gang of criminals. I gravitated toward the knife-wielding yakuza style for one-on-one fights and swapped to ...
By paying the money, the trio, in effect, encouraged the gangs to prosper ... Since then, the yakuza contacted him by cellphone toward the end of each month to arrange where to hand over the ...
It expanded significantly from the late 1950s to the early '70s, becoming the most powerful yakuza gang in Japan. The year 2005 proved to be a pivotal one for the group, as two new leaders took ...
Yakuza: Like A Dragon may advertise itself with gang wars, police corruption ... but this is like hacking at the Berlin Wall with a hand trowel. There are better ways to go about it.