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Asian Organized Crime
The Yakuza is a form of organized crime which is older than the Sicilian Mafia. With over 300 years of history, this Japanese form of “the mob” is perhaps the oldest in the world . However, When one thinks of “organized crime,” certain images come to mind. First and foremost we think of America’s Mafia as well as Italy’s La Cosa Nostra. Both the Irish and Jews run their own crime organizat ....
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.... trait. Additionally, another reason that women are excluded from these groups is that there is a strong code of silence. There is a notion that many Japanese women are not able to withhold information that they learn and that if such information leaked out, it may spell the demise of the particular group. The origin of the term Yakuza comes from a Japanese card game, similar to blackjack, called “oicho-kabu.”
There are four origins to the modern-day Yakuza; the Tek ....
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