Yakuza are your friend!

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Japanese Mafia struggles
The Japan Times: Feb. 1, 2004Review: THE JAPANESE MAFIA: Yakuza, Law and the State, by Peter B.E. Hill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
.... According to Hill, the decline of the yakuza is not an unmitigated boon. Ironically, the restructuring and weakening of the yakuza as a result of new legal initiatives has rendered them less capable of controlling crime. And, the volatile mix of a weakened yakuza, foreign gangs and a more confrontational police leads Hill to predict greater violence.
Mo betta Yat-chan pix and story here...Tattoos they are a-changin'...

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Japanese Mafia struggles
The Japan Times: Feb. 1, 2004Review: THE JAPANESE MAFIA: Yakuza, Law and the State, by Peter B.E. Hill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
.... According to Hill, the decline of the yakuza is not an unmitigated boon. Ironically, the restructuring and weakening of the yakuza as a result of new legal initiatives has rendered them less capable of controlling crime. And, the volatile mix of a weakened yakuza, foreign gangs and a more confrontational police leads Hill to predict greater violence.
Mo betta Yat-chan pix and story here...Tattoos they are a-changin'...

Heres the link to watch an interesting video interview with Velisarios Kattoulas who is author of new book called The Modern Yakuza

Also.. Jeff at Sushicam has a few great Yakuza tatto shots here:
http://www.sushicam.com/2004/January/040118/040118.php

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Also.. Jeff at Sushicam has a few great Yakuza tatto shots here:
http://www.sushicam.com/2004/January/040118/040118.php

Damn. I didn't sign any release on this photo of me.
http://www.sushicam.com/2004/January/040118/pages/CRW_9256.htm