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Day laborers just happened to have a confrontation with yakuza who wanted to control the labour market, so Sato recorded both sides of the events. On December 22 of the same year, Sato was murdered by a member of the yakuza group and right-wing organization Kokusui-kai Kanamachi-ikka Nishido-gumi (国粋会金町一家西戸組). [2]
In 2001 the FBI's representative in Tokyo arranged for Tadamasa Goto, then the head of the Goto-gumi, to receive a liver transplant in the United States in return for a $100,000 donation to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and information about Yamaguchi-gumi operations in the U.S. [7] This was done without prior consultation of the Japanese National Police Agency.
Kasahara had purposely avoided that part of the story for the first two installments, not only because he was daunted by all the names and relationships that were presented in a complex way, but also because he would have to write about the Yamaguchi-gumi and was concerned about the agreements he made to the people involved in the incidents. [3]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai), also known in the West as The Yakuza Papers, is a Japanese yakuza film series produced by Toei Company. Inspired by a series of magazine articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi that are based on memoirs originally written by real-life yakuza Kōzō ...
Okay, this is where things get very complicated. Gaiden is the most recent game in the series, but its main goal is to bridge the gap between Yakuza 6, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and Like a Dragon ...
The term fushin-sen has become synonymous with North Korean vessels that serve as a connection between North Korean criminal activity and the Yakuza. [3] There are incidents of fushin-sen being involved in the smuggling of agents, illegal immigrants, and drugs, as well as the abduction and trafficking of Japanese people.
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“The Quiet Yakuza,” is one of two late additions made by Japanese indie sales firm Free Stone Productions to its slate of films being pitched at TIFFCOM, the film rights market attached to the ...