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Maid cafe manager who dated one of his maids says he was kidnapped and beaten by the yakuza

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 25, 2020
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Quitting your job can be hard when your bosses are gangsters.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • maid cafes • maids • yakuza)

Manga about yakuza-turned-househusband gets live action commercial and we want more【Video】

• Eli Pang
  Jan 11, 2020

Nothing’s cooking but some good ol’ yakuza fun.

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• Japan
• (ads • cool • fun • Gokushufodo • Live action • The Way of the House Husband • yakuza)

Strip club guidance booth raid in Japan ends with police seizing 440 pounds of raw fish

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 22, 2019

Investigators knew something fishy was going on in Nagasaki.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • fish • food • Nagasaki • weird • yakuza)

Sega suspends sales of yakuza video game after actor/musician is arrested on cocaine charges

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2019

It’s one thing to play a crime boss in a game, but when the real life actor starts breaking the law, Sega is ready to pull the plug.

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• Japan
• (crime • Drugs • Judge Eyes • Judgement • Masanori Taki • Pierre Taki • scandal • Sega • video games • yakuza)

Member of yakuza arrested for having honest job, dishonest application

• Dale Roll
  Jan 21, 2019

60-year-old man’s application paperwork lands him in trouble.

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• Japan
• (arrest • Organized crime • part time job • police • post office • yakuza)

Founder of Japanese supermarket chain arrested on charges of receiving prostitution revenue

• Shannon McNaught
  Dec 7, 2018

Would you still shop here knowing what you know now?

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• Japan
• (crime in Japan • criminal investigation • Osaka • supermarket • Tamade • yakuza)

Trick or Trafficking? Japanese mafia hand out candy to kids on Halloween, get away with it again

• Katy Kelly
  Nov 3, 2018

Gangsters from the yakuza group Yamaguchi-gumi were spotted with cute treat bags, surrounded by smiling children and furious adults.

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• Japan
• (halloween • Organized crime • weird • yakuza • yamaguchi-gumi)

Yakuza currently threatening Japan’s sea cucumbers

• Master Blaster
  Jun 27, 2018

Who needs drugs, gambling, and prostitution when there’s an ocean full of slimy black gold for the taking?

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• Japan
• (business • crime • poaching • sea cucumber • yakuza)

Anime featuring yakuza thugs getting gender reassignment surgeries to become idols begins in July

• Master Blaster
  Jun 9, 2018

New trailers give a glimpse of the insanity.

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• Japan
• (anime • Back Street Girls • idol singers • Idols • manga • video • weird • yakuza)

Japanese Twitter users agree that yakuza members are more Photoshop savvy than the average joe

• Koh Ruide
  Apr 29, 2018

Although when you think about what they do for a living, it does makes sense.

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• Japan
• (adult • Japanese Twitter • Photoshop • yakuza)

Clip shows Nintendo wouldn’t be the powerhouse it is today without cards and yakuza【Video】

• Koh Ruide
  Apr 2, 2018

Now one of the most influential firms in the video game industry, few know of the company’s past struggles.

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• Japan
• (hanafuda • history • nintendo • playing cards • video • yakuza • YouTube)

23-year-old Tokyo policewoman falls in movie-style love with yakuza member, real life ensues

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2018

He wasn’t arrested for theft, but he stole her heart, and she gave him even more in return.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • police • romance • shinjuku • Tokyo • weird • yakuza)

Happy Halloween from Japan’s largest criminal organization!

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 1, 2017

Kobe-based yakuza group beckons trick-or-treating kids with cotton candy in Frozen bags at its criminal headquarters.

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• Japan
• (candy • crime • halloween • Kobe • mobsters • weird • yakuza)

Japanese requirement for tattoo artists to have medical licenses may be nail in industry’s coffin

• Richard Simmonds
  Sep 29, 2017

Osaka district court ruling says tattooing isn’t art, it’s a medical procedure.

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• Japan
• (art • body art • crime • culture • onsen • society • tattoos • yakuza)

Fake yakuza arrested in Tokyo after threatening man who was walking while staring at a smartphone

• Richard Simmonds
  Aug 30, 2017

Continued backlash against “arukisumaho” seen in social media users’ responses.

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• Japan
• (arukisumaho • COK • crime • Smartphones • Tokyo • violence • yakuza)

Watch the dying art of the punch perm, a quintessential Japanese hairstyle, in Mr. Sato’s new ‘do

• Master Blaster
  Apr 27, 2017

Mr. Sato experiences a classic of Japanese hairstyling from the Showa Era to get in touch with… Eh, okay. He lost a bet.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • fashion • hairstyle • Mr. Sato • punch perm • yakuza)

Six uniquely Osaka experiences

• Master Blaster
  Dec 17, 2016

After living in Tokyo for ten years, our Osaka-born writer Seiji Nakazawa shares some experiences from his hometown he thought were normal but actually weren’t.

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• Japan
• (business • culture • homeless • Osaka • yakuza • yankees)

Top 3 most feared customers according to former phone sales rep

• Master Blaster
  Nov 19, 2016

Who beats out religious proponents and yakuza for the most feared customer to encounter at a mobile phone counter?

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• Japan
• (business • customer service • customers • mobile phones • Smartphones • yakuza)

Couriers scare off yakuza members pretending to be yakuza members

• Master Blaster
  Oct 31, 2016

One of the gangsters reportedly admitted, “I have never met anyone as tough as those deliverymen.”

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• Japan
• (Arakawa • crazy • crime • Rolex • Sagawa Express • Tokyo • yakuza)

Former yakuza leader arrested for shaking down friend made while playing Pokémon GO

• Master Blaster
  Oct 28, 2016

For one unwitting young man, a game of Pokémon GO turned into Grand Theft Auto GO.

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• Japan
• (crime • extortion • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Tokyo • yakuza • yamaguchi-gumi)

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