Japan's "most violent Yakuza boss" to be hanged

[Ivan]

I've heard this guy referred to as the "most violent Yakuza boss in Japan" before. He's the first boss there to ever get the death penalty.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-26/ ... /100408284

[Dave65827]

I remember reading about the decline of the Yakuza and how it’s fallen from its height. If anything it’s decline was more significant than American LCN with the widespread assimilation of Japanese-Koreans and extreme laws that make it illegal to even pay an extortion fee

It went from at its height 250,000 members to less than 60k today

[Dwalin2014]

I've heard this guy referred to as the "most violent Yakuza boss in Japan" before. He's the first boss there to ever get the death penalty.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-26/ ... /100408284

There was also another yakuza boss sentenced to death: Osamu Yano. He killed himself in prison before the execution last year though.
However, he was a minor figure compared to Nomura, I think...

[Ivan]

I remember reading about the decline of the Yakuza and how it’s fallen from its height. If anything it’s decline was more significant than American LCN with the widespread assimilation of Japanese-Koreans and extreme laws that make it illegal to even pay an extortion fee

I translate Japanese documents for a living and most of them have a "this agreement is immediately null and void if a party hereto gets involved with boryokudan in any way" clause.

[OcSleeper]

I remember reading about the decline of the Yakuza and how it’s fallen from its height. If anything it’s decline was more significant than American LCN with the widespread assimilation of Japanese-Koreans and extreme laws that make it illegal to even pay an extortion fee

It went from at its height 250,000 members to less than 60k today

I remember reading a 2019 (IIRC) report that had them around 10k-15k then and are dropping each year.

[Amershire_Ed]

Yeah I saw some show on Vice a couple years ago and they really made it seem like they’ve almost been wiped out. Japanese law makers and law enforcement essentially made it impossible to live as an active Yakuza member. They can’t rent apartments. They can’t get jobs. In some cases they won’t even allow them to own a cell phone.