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The name yakuza originates from the traditional Japanese card game Oicho-Kabu, a game in which the goal is to draw three cards adding up to a score of 9. If the sum of the cards is 10 or more, the second digit is the score.
He was the leader and the co-founder of the first major Mexican drug cartel, the Guadalajara Cartel, an alliance of the current existing cartels (which included the Sinaloa Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, and the Sonora Cartel with Aldair Mariano as the leader). After his arrest, the alliance broke, and high-ranking members ...
Yakuza was the first and (until the release of Judgment) only game in the series to feature an English dub. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] The original game's localization and English dub, and the lack of Japanese audio as an option, has been retrospectively highlighted by critics as a perceived flaw of the game's original Western release.
Oswaldo Zavala is a Mexican academic and writer whose provocatively titled 2022 book — "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture" — argues for a bold reframing ...
In this game, we once again see the fallout of the massive events of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, with the Yakuza in tatters and the cities of Kamurocho and Ijincho rapidly trying to fill a power vacuum.
Like a Dragon, formerly titled Yakuza outside Japan, is a role playing video game series developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku and published by Sega. The series debuted in 2005 with the release of Yakuza on PlayStation 2.
The synthetic drugs are made by so-called cooks in Mexico, then smuggled into the U.S., where American-based cartel groups proceed to distribute them to big cities and rural towns.
[8] [4] The cartel has been noted for cannibalizing some victims during the training of new sicarios or members, as well as using drones [9] [49] [31] and rocket-propelled grenades to attack enemies. [50] CJNG started in 2009 as one of the splits of the Milenio Cartel, the other being La Resistencia. CJNG defeated La Resistencia and took ...