How Wonderful Are Your Local Yakuza?

[Taro Toporific]

whatjapanthinks.com 2006/02/10/
Regardless of how long I live here, and how often people try to explain the Yakuza to me, I always shake my head ...
[INDENT]Crime syndicates in Japan had around 86,300 members as of Dec. 31, down some 700 from a year earlier, marking the first drop in 10 years, the National Police Agency said Thursday. The Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi, accounted for 50.1% of all the members, passing the majority threshold for the first time. [/INDENT]

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[dimwit]

[INDENT]Crime syndicates in Japan had around 86,300 members as of Dec. 31, down some 700 from a year earlier, marking the first drop in 10 years, the National Police Agency said Thursday. The Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi, accounted for 50.1% of all the members, passing the majority threshold for the first time. [/INDENT]

It is comforting to know that they have such an exact count on the number of criminals that are walking the street.
My guess is the seven hundred who quit are now just involved in freelance thuggery.

[maninjapan]

It is comforting to know that they have such an exact count on the number of criminals that are walking the street.
My guess is the seven hundred who quit are now just involved in freelance thuggery.

Or died.