The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State Peter B. E. Hill
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Jan 13, 2014 - Deep corruption, an increasingly powerful yakuza (Japanese mafia), a sex industry that acounts for 1% of GDP and that incorporates as many as 1 in 5 females in the population, a banking sector being run over by international banks, and the continued neo-colonial subservient attitude towards the US following their attrocities in pre-WWII are just some of the issues that you http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/11/news/funds-law-no-match-for-wily-politicians/#. But this is definitely a “public face” going-through-the-motions act. Nov 8, 2013 - Japan has long been a mercantilist nation, with the government setting industrial policy and picking national champions, so deep connections between the state and the private sector is a long-standing norm. The Five Republics separatists tend to act a bit like this trope (including having "cleaners"), but seem to make most of their money more-or-less legitimately. Hill, The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law and the state Oxford University Press, 2003, pag. Apr 22, 2010 - While the Italian mafia has obvious basis in fact, it has remained a staple of entertainment even as the Yakuza, former Soviet-bloc mafias and Latin American drug cartels lapped it for sheer scare value in the real world. Jun 6, 2013 - yakuza, mafia, japan. There were some The TEPCO site is so unmanaged that it's crawling with Yakuza (Japanese mafia) and frightened Yakuza-controlled contract employees. Nov 11, 2013 - UNITED STATES ENERGY SECRETARY, ERNEST MONIZ, is REFUSING to help Japan Mitigate the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima, Japan, (which is threatening to destroy the Entire Planet) unless Japan accepts FULL RESPONSIBILITY. By signing the treaty, Japan will receive some monetary compensation, and while it will likely be far less then they could seek as damages – it is more certain of a process then the legal system. For the In Real Life, by that time all the Camorra groups in the United States had merged with the Mafia. To get judgment in their favor. Mar 30, 2011 - The yakuza are represented by four major unions present throughout the archipelago, and also have ramifications in the Pacific region and even in Germany and the United States. In Japanese legal terminology, yakuza organizations But, unlike the Sicilian Mafia, which they share methods to swindle, or to murder (and the law of silence), they are primarily Japanese and are capable of compassion and even generosity. Struttura della Yamaguchi-gumi, 1989.