YAKUZA and Tongs

[sdeitche]

I was working on a potential book project back in 2005, that never came to fruition, with a Japanese wrestler who infiltrated the yakuza in Hawaii. He just recently passed away. I amassed a good deal of material about their activities. Think I still have it in my cavern o' files- if so, will post some stuff.

Why didn't the book come out?

Didn't get much interest in the proposal from publishers, then he moved back to Japan, so we called it a day.

[Peppermint]

You hear about the Chinese Godfather? He made them an offer they couldn't understand.


Pogo

LOL

Yakuza Membership Hits New Record Low

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00694/

i thought that yamaguchi-gumi had 10.000 members, according to this source only 4000 are full members (the resta re associates), it would be less than ndrangheta or cosa nostra in italy

Not only has Yakuza organization’s in general been experiencing a decline in membership. Largely due in part to the general population decline Japan as a whole has been experiencing. But the Kobe faction, within Yamaguchi-Gumi split off from the rest of the clan, and call themselves Kobe Yamaguchi-Gumi. So you’d imagine a large chunk of that 10,000, were accounted for in that split especially considering they originated in Kobe Japan to begin with.

[scagghiuni]

Not only has Yakuza organization’s in general been experiencing a decline in membership. Largely due in part to the general population decline Japan as a whole has been experiencing. But the Kobe faction, within Yamaguchi-Gumi split off from the rest of the clan, and call themselves Kobe Yamaguchi-Gumi. So you’d imagine a large chunk of that 10,000, were accounted for in that split especially considering they originated in Kobe Japan to begin with.

yes, but it seems they always counted both made members and associates in the past estimates, so before the split it had about 5.000 full members, by far less than its peak in the 1960s, at least according to what i read