Posts Tagged ‘yakuza’

Japan’s Yakuza Wants To Go Legit With ‘Private Army’ Business

The Japanese underworld is planning to branch out and provide bodyguards and security personnel for legitimate businesses in Southeast Asia, Japan’s Flash Magazine reported citing the leader of a yakuza group. In an interview, Yoshinori Oda, the head of the Ninkyo Dantai Yamaguchi-gumi gang talked about plans to set up a private […]

13yo Turkish boy detained for ‘insulting’ Erdogan on Facebook

The boy’s house was raided by anti-terror teams on Tuesday after a tip-off by “a secret witness,” who claimed that the boy, mentioned only as A. Ş., had insulted Erdogan in a comment that he allegedly posted below a video on Facebook, Bianet news agency reported.  The teen denied all allegations and, following questioning by […]

Shooting yakuza: Belgian photographer reveals to RT how he worked with Japanese mafia (EXCLUSIVE)

“We had negotiations with them for about 10 months before we were actually allowed to take pictures,” he said. The photographer’s focus was on the controversy and ambiguity surrounding the highly secretive world of the yakuza. “My goal for this project was very simple: to understand what it is [like] being a yakuza, what it […]

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