St. Elmo's Fire wrote: What actually is it!? Do you put coffee in it?
AnimeGamer183 wrote:
I bought a little bubbler for $15.
This article is naive at best. It is really poorly researched actually and just not true.
Many western people believe the PR machines of the Yakuza and romantic gentlemen gangster mythology. But the reality as any Japanese living in a big city knows is very different.
The Yakuza infect every aspect of life here.
They are in corporate fraud, manipulating stock prices and driving businesses into bankruptcy and asset taking. They are engaged in loan sharking, protection rackets, pornography, illegal gambling, and despite what the article (and thier PR people) says they are also engaged in drug dealing and human trafficking, prostitution and kidnapping and blackmail. They corrupt police and government officials and elected representatives.
Where do you think they get their money from for goodness sake???
Yakuza do not stop street crime, unless it is bad for business.
As for their contribution to relief efforts their puppet company get very lucrative contracts for rebuilding and clearing waste. It is a marketing expense not charity.
It is makes me so angry to see my local Yakuza group (Sumiyoshi-kai) swaggering around the streets and walking in and out of their "office" and "social club" and the police do nothing.
I am happy that at last the government is doing something to stop these gangsters
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