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  2. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...

  3. List of Yakuza syndicates - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Name Headquarters Reg. in Notes Yamaguchi-gumi VI 六代目山口組 Kobe, Hyogo: 1992 It was founded in 1915 and split from the Oshima-gumi in 1932. Yamaguchi is the surname of the founder and first boss and kumi or gumi means group. Inagawa-kai: 稲川会 Minato, Tokyo: 1992

  4. Yakuza - Wikipedia

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    A sum of 10 or 20 is a score of 0. If the three cards drawn are 8-9-3 (pronounced ya-ku-za in archaic Japanese), the sum is 20 and therefore the score is zero, making one of the worst possible hands that can be drawn. [10] [11] In Japanese, the word yakuza is commonly written in katakana (ヤクザ).

  5. Yakuwarigo - Wikipedia

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    Yakuwarigo (Japanese: 役割語, "role language") is a style of language, often used in works of fiction, that conveys certain traits about its speaker such as age, gender, and class. [1] It is particularly used in reference to the styles of speech found in Japanese-language media such as manga , anime , and novels.

  6. Glossary of Mafia-related words - Wikipedia

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    This is a glossary of words related to the Mafia, primarily the Sicilian Mafia and Italian American Mafia. administration: the top-level "management" of an organized crime family -- the boss, underboss and consigliere. [1] associate: one who works with mobsters, but has not been asked to take the vow of Omertà; an almost confirmed, or made guy ...

  7. Minbo - Wikipedia

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    The word "minbo" is a contraction of minji kainyū bōryoku (民事介入暴力), literally translated as "violent intervention in civil affairs". It was a technique utilized by the yakuza following the crackdown of traditionally "victimless" crimes of drugs, gambling, and prostitution in the early 1980s, and exploited the Japanese reluctance towards confrontation in order to "gently extort ...

  8. Sukeban - Wikipedia

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    Sukeban (スケバン/助番) is a Japanese term meaning ' delinquent girl ', and the female equivalent to the male banchō in Japanese culture. The usage of the word sukeban refers to either the leader of a girl gang or the entire gang itself, [4] [better source needed] and is not used to refer to any one member of a girl gang.

  9. Talk:Gangsta (manga) - Wikipedia

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    Having looked at Japanese_punctuation#Words_containing_full_stops and asked at Japan-related_articles#Japanese_words_spelled_with_the_full_stop, I see it said that this Japanese full stop is non-traditional, a fad, and used merely for decoration. I therefore conclude that this dot, while small, is not a detail of any importance, but a styling ...

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