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Yakuza exclusion ordinances or Organized crime exclusion ordinances (暴力団排除条例, Bōryoku-dan Haijo Jōrei) is the Japanese collective term for ordinances or local laws that aim to cut the citizen–yakuza relationship. [1] The intent is to shift from "the yakuza versus the police" to "the yakuza versus society".
During this period, Japan was in a recession following the energy crisis of the 1970s, and it became difficult for the yakuza to acquire sufficient financial resources through traditional methods alone, so it was inevitable that they would consolidate into large yakuza organizations with diverse or legal sources of funding. [6] [74]
[citation needed] The cheap cost of such antiquated guns (compared to the high cost of more modern guns on the black market), as well as the Yakuza's cultural preference for traditional Japanese swords, [clarification needed] explain their continued reliance on the aforementioned handgun models.
Man's hand showing yubitsume, with the upper two portions of the little finger having been removed. Yubitsume (指詰め, "finger shortening") or otoshimae is a Japanese ritual to atone for offenses to another, a way to be punished or to show sincere apology and remorse to another, by means of amputating portions of one's own little finger.
Yakuza: Dead Souls . Yakuza: Dead Souls is very much a spinoff, set in a non-canon timeline shortly after the events of Yakuza 4. In it, a zombie outbreak occurs and it’s up to our heroes ...
Yakuza groups built methamphetamine manufacturing plants in South Korea and Taiwan, and smuggled the drug into Japan to sell to students as well as the general public. [4] This is also a major factor in the rise of young drug users in Japan, and why intravenous drug users are more likely to use methamphetamine. [9]
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin Luigi Mangione was “irritated” before his public outburst because there was no lawyer to support him as law enforcement officials ...
Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, look at it: we say it's ok for people to get LASIK for their eyes. That's performance enhancing. And there's always the chance that something can go wrong.