The government does NOT LIKE COMPETITION. Helps to remember things like prostitution are legal in Japan now, guess which entity gets A $$cut$$ of those proceeds instead of the Yakuza now.
@AKlover prostitution is not legal in japan, they have basically a private room strip club where some sexual stuff probably takes place, it's not legal.
@@becraftcorey "Legal Grey Area"???? I remember BPS doing A video showing where the brothels are and how Japanese prostitutes either are pressured to not or outright do not service foreigners, that is left to the "migrants". That is oddly specific to be untrue. Look up Black Pigeon Walking Tour or something to that effect.
@@becraftcorey "Legal Grey Area"???? I remember BPS doing A video showing where the red light districts are and how Japanese pros either are pressured to not or outright do not service foreigners, that is left to the "migrants". That is oddly specific to be untrue. Look up Pigeon Walking Tour or something to that effect.
An assessment of Jake Adelstein by the world's best yakuza experts. "Not only do they misrepresent the yakuza, they make themselves into the heroes of crime novels and start telling the world that they are yakuza experts. It is tedious, time-consuming, and frequently causes trouble. I have learned the hard way that my name and work are often used to enhance the credibility of this work."
@@jibberjabber6919 Martina Baradel discusses the unique world of the yakuza, Japan's organised crime syndicates | Department of Sociology | University of Oxford
I’m currently reading his “The Last Yakuza” and it’s a lot of stories of how people got in and various business ventures and shakedowns they had. The intro has a bit about him and the situations for why he got the interviews he did and how you really can’t provide sources because all of this is illegal
I worked at the St. Tropez Club in Osaka from Sept. 1985 to Feb. 1986. We were an American funk band and worked 60+ hours a week. There wasn't enough interest from younger musicians in our boomer music to keep it going for American bands on the circuit and we were the last to be hired by the yakuza. The club was like a fortress. I didn't know who Hiroshi Yamamoto was when I met him but a lot of people wanted him dead. All I knew was gangsters ran some clubs for live music and paid us. We rotated sets with a girl group from the Philippines. At 66 years old now, 90's Japan and beyond seems like a much different world. I never went back. The yakuza is finished. No one respects them anymore. They did 40 years ago.
Loved Toyko Vice Series 1 ..... Series 2 just dropped in Europe have watched 4 episode's so far .....loving it so far .... Sato is the BEST character in the series ....The actor that plays him was made for the role ... Is a gangster ...but reluctant one.... Totally addicted to this series
He said the mob and Yakuza aren't similar because of the celebrity like status of the Yakuza but that makes the mob and Yakuza even more similar. During the height of the mafia these mafia bosses and members were treated like celebrities. Hell, paparazzi would even flock to them like they would with an A list actor.
Agreed the person who is interviewed and yourself should be a bit louder and ads should be either at beginning after intro or closer to the end slap 3-4 for in a row or 2 in the begining 2 in middle and 2 at the end depending on the length of video
Thanks Jake A . Was one of the liver transplant name Aki? My friend’s boyfriend in 80s. Did you become a Journalist there with Japanese language fluent? Did you know Terry Anderson?
Also, following the (anti-Yakuza) ordinances of 2011 which were politically driven by the Hatoyama government over his 2 year reign from 2009 many of the groups simply acquiesced under a mutually beneficial understanding and “corporatised” their commercial activities within legitimate longstanding ‘white collar’ firms in the manufacturing, law and financial realms. Effectively they just started wearing suits and going into the office - meaning much less need for large numbers of ground troops. The contemporary downside of all that shedding of grunts has been the subsequent and increasing rise in numbers of the Chinese Triads pushing in and taking over the older ‘traditional’ business activities forcing the Yakuza to agree on generally unfavourable split deals within their individual territories. The reality is home break ins and street crime is on the rise including sexual assault. That was never much of a problem with the Yukazu at full strength. Many within the police force and society at large lament the old days.
The 2011 ordinance is a local government (Fukuoka Prefecture) ordinance, not a national law, and the first such ordinance was enacted in Hiroshima Prefecture in 2004. It was not until 1991, during the Kaifu administration, that national laws restricted yakuza activities. The Hatoyama administration (September 16, 2009 to June 8, 2010) was not involved in any of these. Street crime was about 200,000 in 1990, before the was enforced, and has decreased significantly to about 50,000 in 2018.
I could not put his Tokyo Vice book down. Very interesting look into Japan, not the side travel influencers show. I really feel for his chapters about the trafficked women and career burnout. Thank you for another great episode!
I love the tv series and the book but after the new laws the yakuza are almost dead. Adelstein keeps them alive for his own business. What is his worth for a crime group that is now over 90% diminished. All his stories are before the new yakuza laws. Even though his book is a great read even though i dont believe all in this book.
