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A little about the Yakuza in Japan.
*Oyabun: Yakuza organization's top leader.
The origin of the Yakuza is from the resistance against the samurai who lost their master so they became thugs in the era of Shokun Tokugawa in 1612 .
They were referred to as kabuki-mono or samurai who carried swords everywhere. They spoke to each other in slang and secret code. There is a high loyalty among fellow ronin so this group is difficult to eradicate.
The Yakuza in Hiragana
To protect the city from the kabuki-mono, many small towns in Japan form machi-yokko (task units (satgas) villages). The task force consisted of merchants, officers, and ordinary people willing to donate their power to face the kabuki-mono.
Although they are poorly trained and few in number, but it turns out that the members of these machi-yokko are able to guard their area from the attacks of the kabuki-mono. Among 17th-century Japanese, the machi-yokko were considered heroes.
The problem became complicated, because after successfully overthrowing the ronin, the machi-yokko members instead left their initial profession and chose to be thugs.
And then there are the members who come in and form a kinship system. There are two classes of professions of the machi-yokko, namely the Bakuto (gamblers) and Tekiya (traders). The name is only the merchants but in fact, the Tekiya like to cheat and blackmail fellow traders.
But since the enactment of the anti-Yakuza law, Yakuza fangs were immediately eradicated, and they were immediately arrested if they carried out extortion or anything deemed illegal easily by the police. Even Yakuza members who have been caught doing illegal activities and crimes are prohibited from having bank accounts.
The Yakuza now run legal activities and adapt to Japanese government regulations, they have a large source of funds inherited from the past and network to run the company legally but behind it they regulate many important deals in government projects.
And its members are high level and Okobun will actually never be known by the public. Only the ones shown will appear. Except those who have been caught. And their dirty work is done by some sort of hit-man (gangster group, low group that relies on muscle) that is not related to the main organization.
In addition, many companies that obtain bank loans are basically a kigyo shatei, a puppet company owned by the Yakuza. The Yakuza-owned company is estimated to obtain credit between 300-400 billion dollars (5200 trillion Rp), and some of that amount is channeled to the parent Yakuza organization. Faced with something like this, Japanese banks obviously can not dwell.
On the other hand, Yakuza members also often buy property assets at a sloping price from companies that need cash to resell at any high price ranging from apartments, offices to hospitals. When a building has been bought by the Yakuza, no one dares to be their neighbor and as a result the property price falls immediately, and immediately rises as soon as the Yakuza sell it.
Yakuza members are now blending in the community, doing legal business smartly, some are still visible in the entertainment business, pros*titu*si blatantly, he said, and some others do hidden activities even crimes according to the clan they are in.