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  • @CountDankula
    @CountDankula  Год назад +190

    Install Raid for Free ✅ IOS/ANDROID/PC: clcr.me/Jul23_CountDankula and get a special starter pack with an Epic champion ⚡ Knight Errant ⚡Available only for new players

    • @Viezieg
      @Viezieg Год назад +49

      no thx lol

    • @Butter_Warrior99
      @Butter_Warrior99 Год назад +2

      bet

    • @rorz999
      @rorz999 Год назад +47

      No chance in hell, thanks for the vids though Dank

    • @symmetrie_bruch
      @symmetrie_bruch Год назад +11

      no, but at least or once, it´s kind of fitting since the yakuza might just as well be behind raid, seeing as it´s basically gambling and designed to exploit the most vulnerable and separate them from their money

    • @mrpeacecraft
      @mrpeacecraft Год назад +6

      @CountDankula "Just log in 7 days in a row until 24th of july" this video is an hour old and there are only 6 days left and in an hour that's only 5.

  • @ryv2484
    @ryv2484 Год назад +5299

    Yakuza are scary and all but did you hear about that guy who taught his pug to heil hitler? Sends a shiver down my spine! 😨

    • @Theendman42
      @Theendman42 Год назад +402

      It wasn’t even his pug! It was his wife’s! He disgraced even common values! The fiend! Ugh!

    • @cattysplat
      @cattysplat Год назад +282

      Shocking. Before you know it that pug will be voting Tory.

    • @randomcomment6068
      @randomcomment6068 Год назад +124

      Pug salute is the ultimate threat to societay!

    • @nevermindmeijustinjectedaw9988
      @nevermindmeijustinjectedaw9988 Год назад +1

      dat shit be grossly offensive, made my pussy hurt

    • @kyriss12
      @kyriss12 Год назад +142

      I heard they made him a Supreme Court justice.

  • @ZXNovaBoom
    @ZXNovaBoom Год назад +2359

    Fun Fact about Tattoos: While it is true that the anti-tattoo stigma is still very prominent in Japan, there is actually one type of tattoo that Japanese people tend to be okay with: Weeb tattoos. If you get a tattoo of some anime waifu on your arm, Japanese people are gonna think you're so pathetic and feeble that it'll override the discomfort of it being a tattoo, and think you're actually safe to be around.

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Год назад +780

      I'd rather be seen as a criminal tbh

    • @JR-zi9vj
      @JR-zi9vj Год назад +70

      What would they do if u just have a potrait of ur mom lol

    • @lornbaker1083
      @lornbaker1083 Год назад +243

      @@JR-zi9vj A heart with "mom" on it is like the most inoffensive tattoo on earth in any culture. it just shows ya love ya mom.

    • @leroy92TX
      @leroy92TX Год назад +59

      @lornbaker1083 I got my mom's initials on my face and people think I'm a theif lol

    • @jazzfeline5970
      @jazzfeline5970 Год назад +42

      You had me in the first half, not gonna lie

  • @vandarkholme8548
    @vandarkholme8548 Год назад +1649

    "Casualties and losses: Over 36 killed in total"
    In Memphis they'd call it a relatively peaceful weekend.

    • @long-hair-dont-care88.
      @long-hair-dont-care88. Год назад +136

      Yes but these were "made" men in Japan it's a complete different situation.

    • @jpettit27
      @jpettit27 Год назад +251

      Japanese not blacks so totally different situations.

    • @emilyadams3228
      @emilyadams3228 Год назад +164

      In Chicago, nothing under 100 even counts.

    • @NotUrDJ
      @NotUrDJ Год назад +34

      ​@@miguelsilva9085just can't keep racism out of it eh

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Год назад +59

      36 killed is the kind of good day Ice cubed made a song about.

  • @northstar6920
    @northstar6920 Год назад +429

    I confused the words jaccuzi and yakuza and now I'm in hot water with the japanese mafia.

  • @z2ei
    @z2ei Год назад +644

    I'm amazed that such an esteemed Supreme Court Justice knows so much about the workings of a Japanese crime syndicate.

    • @tomz5704
      @tomz5704 Год назад +29

      It's probably from his time when he was just a judge

    • @bethstaley467
      @bethstaley467 Год назад

      Maybe he was just a corrupt piece of dung.

    • @judgedrekk2981
      @judgedrekk2981 Год назад +5

      @@tomz5704 lol just a judge he says LMAO!!! just a judge.....[laughs hard as i walk down the street]

    • @scottbrady6240
      @scottbrady6240 6 месяцев назад +1

      SHOULDNT THOSE THAT HOLD THE POWER TO JUDGE BE EDUCATED IN ALL THINGS THEY PASS JUDGEMENT ON?

  • @T3nch1
    @T3nch1 Год назад +137

    The symbiotic relationship between Japanese police and the Yakuza was the plot of Yakuza 4. Even going so far as to highlight how the Yakuza keep the Snake Flower Triad(Chinese) and Jingweon(Korean) out of the country. Fictional mafias but the message is the same, "It was the police and the Yakuza that rebuilt Japan after World War 2. The police keeping order within the country while the Yakuza keep foreign threats at bay." ~An approximation of what the BBEG monologues.

    • @jackhazardous4008
      @jackhazardous4008 Год назад

      Is 3 worth finishing? I seriously cant get into it

    • @cyberrunners2077
      @cyberrunners2077 Год назад +8

      To me the Yakuza are the opposite of cartels, Yakuza bring order, cartels bring chaos

  • @KarlPHorse
    @KarlPHorse Год назад +979

    I like how the Yakuza kept a tight lid on their people to the point that you couldn't even single out one mad lad, you had to make a video on all of them. That is how good the Yakuza has become at policing their people since the war.

    • @screamingseal4805
      @screamingseal4805 Год назад

      Eh since war they do much violent crime anymore though they aren’t even really a criminal organization at this point

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Год назад

      i greatly understand the japanese people wanting the yakuza around to keep the blacks in check. Without the Yakuza shibuya will turn into Chicago or any other muttmerican city .

    • @ghagzor
      @ghagzor Год назад +58

      Except the owners of Pride mma promotion

    • @TheRealRusDaddy
      @TheRealRusDaddy Год назад +42

      @@ghagzorsometimes theres a few that drip through the tiny cracks

    • @toastedt140
      @toastedt140 Год назад +31

      Yakuza is a shell of what they once were

  • @fearandloathingmedia2051
    @fearandloathingmedia2051 Год назад +582

    Imagine being a japanese landscaper and cutting off the tip of your pinky on a lawnmower and coming home to your wife or mother and the hospital and saying it's not what it looks like.

    • @viktordickinson7844
      @viktordickinson7844 Год назад +60

      If a lawnmower took off just my pinky, i'd feel blessed

    • @MegadethTillDeth
      @MegadethTillDeth Год назад +27

      wtf kinda lawn equipment are you using lol

    • @moenibus
      @moenibus Год назад +1

      It's not the tip of the pinky...

    • @davidripley2916
      @davidripley2916 Год назад +2

      🤣- The Otter did it! ( Japanese are BIG on pet Otters, like English with Jack Russel dogs)

    • @bibsp3556
      @bibsp3556 Год назад +7

      You'd deserve it for sticking your hands in a lawnmower lol.

  • @Zednix
    @Zednix Год назад +52

    This supposed death of the Yakuza reminds me of the US and Canada cracking down on the Hell's Angels and how them shrinking has led to a void filled by much more violent gangs from Asia and other places.

  • @knightrider585
    @knightrider585 Год назад +246

    The part about Japanese society tolerating the Yakuza reminds me of George Orwell's quote "We sleep safe in our beds at night because rough men are ready to visit violence on those who seek to do us harm." Orwell was talking about more official protectors in the military etc. But societies have always relied on taming their outer edges (Ottoman Janissaries for instance) to act as a barrier to the really dangerous people outside.

    • @neoasura
      @neoasura Год назад +34

      As Rust says in True Detective "The world needs bad men, we keep the other bad men from the door"

    • @banneduser5187
      @banneduser5187 Год назад +5

      Janissaries? You should really google that mate... Us Brits are taught about the Ottoman Empire in school, especially the part where we defeated them in WW1

    • @faizanajeeb9748
      @faizanajeeb9748 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@banneduser5187 I don't see how winning ww1 is relvent to his point, care to elaborate?

    • @LordDucarius
      @LordDucarius 2 месяца назад

      Janissaries were the dangerous people for other countries😂 The muslims enslaved millions of boys and indoctrinated them to murder their own kind throughout europe

    • @jdbm1978
      @jdbm1978 2 месяца назад

      Janissaries are slave soldiers, often Eunuchs who are taken as children and brainwashed into serving Islam. It's both the ultimate fu and shame upon white Europeans. Simple enough?

  • @ninjabreadman8166
    @ninjabreadman8166 Год назад +88

    Mad Lads Candidate: Ken Eto. Also known as Tokyo Joe, he was a Japanese man who rose to become a member of the Chicago Mob's Inner Circle

  • @lucashc2
    @lucashc2 Год назад +67

    You forgot to mention that some pigments on their ritualistic tattooing are toxic. For example, red ink can get you sick (vomiting, rash, fever, diarrhea, etc) up to a whole week, which means that the amount of those colors in your tattoo are also a symbol of commitment and toughness.

  • @lightningstrike6398
    @lightningstrike6398 Год назад +747

    The concept of recreating the killing of Takanaka in the Yakuza game had to go through multiple layers of scriptwriting, probably get brought to a board of directors, and no one had an issue. It's hilarious.

    • @SlenderGray59
      @SlenderGray59 Год назад +43

      i had a stroke trying to read this

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Год назад +218

      Sega is a Yakuza-runnned company. Remember how Yakuza are really big in pachinko and arcades? So whats more funny is that the board of directors ran this through actual Yakuza

    • @blitzerblazinoah6838
      @blitzerblazinoah6838 Год назад

      A shit Yakuza family, because they couldn't keep SEGA's console line alive.

    • @gungalgeno-7077
      @gungalgeno-7077 Год назад +20

      @@j.2512 Wait fr? This is the first time I've heard about this lmao

    • @thegrayone5666
      @thegrayone5666 Год назад +33

      ​@j.2512 That is...logically that makes sense, I don't know what all jobs are closed off the second you get ink (keep in mind. Japan only usually yakuza have those. Had been that way for a *Long* time.) This isn't the West where tattoos are gotten by just about anyone of any thing. Let alone a criminal record as if you are even suspected to be yakuza the police can make your life harder without a crime.being committed if you are suspected to be a gangster.
      Granted it'd be up their avenue. Though I'd suggest maybe Konamim they for a long time completely said screw gaming we pachinko now. They were lobbying heard for looser restrictions and it did not pan out. They tried to change the game and the yakuza would benefit heavily.from such change.

  • @LichCrypt
    @LichCrypt Год назад +165

    After visiting Kabukicho multiple times, I can tell you the following: they're not subtle at all, they cooperate with the authorities and they keep their turf safe from everyone, yourself included. If they're going broke, they sure know how to hide it.

    • @God-ch8lq
      @God-ch8lq Год назад +6

      they don't need subtlety

    • @AgentDanielCross
      @AgentDanielCross Год назад

      Say when was the last time ya visited?

    • @ZACKMAN2007
      @ZACKMAN2007 Год назад +1

      I guess it really is 'Mafia city'

    • @LichCrypt
      @LichCrypt Год назад +5

      @@AgentDanielCross about two months ago. Now I'm back in my home country, but I'll be back in Japan next year.
      I want to clarify that when I said the Yakuza aren't subtle, I didn't mean you can see big guys in fancy suits threatening each other on the street like in the video games.
      Instead, there's black cars patrolling the streets. Slowly, but carefully. Everybody knows what they are, and there's a surprisingly low amount of police presence in the area.
      There used to be a lot, and I mean a lot, of street "hustlers" that offer to take you to places where you can get drinks, women and even promised drugs in some cases.

    • @UnsoberIdiot
      @UnsoberIdiot 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@LichCrypt Remember to thank them for their service.

  • @llamawearingsombrero6764
    @llamawearingsombrero6764 Год назад +402

    I like the irony how he wasn’t elected because he was too soft yet had the guts to order a hit on the head boss

    • @alidaraie
      @alidaraie Год назад +44

      Frankly, that's the sort of compensation that weaker men would do, in other word over reaction

    • @AeneasGemini
      @AeneasGemini Год назад +68

      @@alidaraie How is it an overreaction to kill your enemy? The guy sounds like he was meticulous, not weak, although I understand how to a hyper-masculine, loud mouth braggart that might appear to be weakness
      The seemingly softer man is usually just waiting for his chance to act, while the hollow straw man tough guy ends up on his ass wondering what the hell happened

    • @Taway-yx9xg
      @Taway-yx9xg Год назад +10

      @@AeneasGeminiit’s easy to point a finger and demand things.

    • @MegadethTillDeth
      @MegadethTillDeth Год назад +8

      @@AeneasGemini This reads like projection frankly.

    • @FringeWizard2
      @FringeWizard2 Год назад +1

      ​@@alidaraieYour logic makes no sense.

  • @KindaShort
    @KindaShort Год назад +535

    Always nice when a new mad lads drops,thank you.

    • @Kain_Mercer
      @Kain_Mercer Год назад +12

      @HeisenbergIsHere No thanks lol

    • @marcus9104
      @marcus9104 Год назад +11

      @HeisenbergIsHereI’d rather my heart stop beating but thanks anyways.

    • @kindledflame5179
      @kindledflame5179 Год назад +11

      ​@HeisenbergIsHerehaven't seen one of these stupid ass things since I was a kid

    • @RipzCritical
      @RipzCritical Год назад

      @@kindledflame5179”Like to cure cancer. Ignore to kill puppies.”

    • @kindledflame5179
      @kindledflame5179 Год назад +2

      @bastiat4855 bro what?

  • @SP-qo3pd
    @SP-qo3pd Год назад +86

    Not long ago, a foreign streamer began annoying people on the trains in Japan for clout.. he would say racist things and invade people's privacy. It didn't last very long though, as he started to get assaulted on camera whenever he was out and about. I believe he got banned and booted from the country.

    • @SSD_Penumbra
      @SSD_Penumbra Год назад +12

      Probably a good thing a few fellas in snazzy suits didn't catch him first.

    • @SP-qo3pd
      @SP-qo3pd Год назад +37

      @@SSD_Penumbra Oh they were Yakuza members. Search "Johnny Somali Yakuza" let's just say he'll probably won't be going back anytime soon.

    • @SSD_Penumbra
      @SSD_Penumbra Год назад

      @@SP-qo3pd Nah, the stupid shitter did it several more times since then, before being banned by the government.
      Though, an acting Yakuza dude would've probably given him a lot to think about.

    • @dendenmushi5458
      @dendenmushi5458 Год назад

      @@SP-qo3pd that guy pick Japan for his own safety lol. Try other asian countries, his scrawny little somali pirate as can't harras anyone without getting pressed back

    • @banneduser5187
      @banneduser5187 Год назад +5

      I know of that sausage from youtube. Jonny Somali his name is. He acts the fool/gets slapped/says sorry then does it again the next week. Last i seen of him both him and his friend got ironed clean out by a white guy with a ponytail

  • @phantomshitter
    @phantomshitter Год назад +397

    Not many people know this but yakuza actually spontenously combust mid combat, drink sake for hp and then sumo slap an enemy yakuza into the air all while a baller theme song plays. Not many people know that.

    • @ppstorm_
      @ppstorm_ Год назад

      Cringe and unfunny

    • @notsocrates9529
      @notsocrates9529 Год назад +7

      try hard

    • @Random_cleans
      @Random_cleans Год назад +4

      You didn't even watch the video before commenting.

    • @Flow1987
      @Flow1987 Год назад +3

      @@HipHopKaschber wer drolld fliegt

    • @jackhazardous4008
      @jackhazardous4008 Год назад +1

      ​@Random_cleans neither did I. Does that make you feel sad?

  • @Circleofcocytus
    @Circleofcocytus Год назад +36

    In my early twenties I was a foreign exchange student in Central Japan. And we would frequent a bar in Nagoya called ID club. This bar was known as a foreigner bar and the owner or manager was a very stereotypical American. Blonde hair big fake teeth very flashy clothing. One evening we were all having a conversation and he was telling stories from his past as he lived in Japan for years. And the conversation drifted towards the Yakuza and he's rattling off some story that involves people being stabbed and all sorts of unsavory activities. We're mostly ignoring him at this point because we figure he's just blowing a lot of smoke. However, about a month later we're all gathered in our dorm rooms watching a local pride fight. It was either pride or k1 I can't remember but I think it was pride. And lo and behold who do we see sitting front row next to some obvious Yakuza? The club owner. So I can't say that I have direct experience with the Yakuza but I at least have experience one or two degrees removed.

    • @jaanth314
      @jaanth314 11 месяцев назад +1

      Haha I haven't been to ID in years. I know the guy you're talking about.

  • @GunterThePenguinHatesHugs
    @GunterThePenguinHatesHugs Год назад +39

    I watched a Japanese interview with an ex boss talking about the Yakuza driving out foreign organized crime; they don't perceive foreign groups as living by any code, and think they'll treat Japanese people with contempt and no empathy?
    Say whereas a Chinese or Phillipino loan shark operating in Japan might not care, supposedly the Yakuza will be more lenient if they know someone they're trying to shake down is poor or has sick family, or might outright apologize and give recompensed.
    They sort of see themselves as protecting Japanese citizens from even greater evils from abroad, which you can kind of under...

    • @shaunnichols1743
      @shaunnichols1743 Год назад +7

      I don't think many Filipino loan sharks operate in Japan, dude. Usually it's the other way around

    • @GunterThePenguinHatesHugs
      @GunterThePenguinHatesHugs Год назад +7

      @@shaunnichols1743 Yeah I don't think the Yakuza would allow them lol! 😆 Was just giving hyperthetics.

    • @tailnowag8753
      @tailnowag8753 Год назад +9

      I think they say this just to save face.
      Like: "Oh yeah, I battered and beat you, but imagine what THEY would do!"

    • @aethelfrithofbernica
      @aethelfrithofbernica Год назад

      ​@tailnowag8753 well, you don't have to imagine. It isn't Brits doing acid attacks

  • @harryblocks
    @harryblocks Год назад +332

    Damn Dankula's networking is crazy having Deathknight in a Collab

  • @benthomason3307
    @benthomason3307 Год назад +36

    When "giving your boss the finger" means something completely different.

  • @Dionaea_floridensis
    @Dionaea_floridensis Год назад +777

    Dank is slowly becoming a Japanese history channel, and I'm all here for it. 行くぜ

    • @screamingseal4805
      @screamingseal4805 Год назад +24

      Yeah he has made a lot of Japanese mad lads huh

    • @Utrechtborn
      @Utrechtborn Год назад +36

      Undercover weeb

    • @McSquizzy962
      @McSquizzy962 Год назад +46

      @@Utrechtbornwhat do you mean UNDER COVER

    • @evansutcliffe1099
      @evansutcliffe1099 Год назад +33

      place: 😐
      place, japan: 😍

    • @KageNoTora74
      @KageNoTora74 Год назад +5

      I guess Japan has simply produced heaps of mad lads.

  • @killertoadstools
    @killertoadstools Год назад +9

    So glad you like the Yakuza games. They got me out of a very dark place with it's humour, so they hold a special place in my heart.

  • @ben_bennet
    @ben_bennet Год назад +147

    The Yakuza are very powerful in the middle east. A person I know sold lion cubs to the Yakuza in Afghanistan a couple of months ago. The Yakuza can freely enter Afghanistan and are left alone by the Taliban. The person I know is a member of the Sayyid family tree. The Sayyid family doesnt really get along with the Taliban. The Yakuza even have power in parts of Africa. The person I know described them as "unsettling" but also very "serious". The person talked with Taliban before but never had to fear them.

    • @SSD_Penumbra
      @SSD_Penumbra Год назад +68

      The Yakuza are pretty much like the Russian and Italian mafias. They're everywhere, just hidden below the surface. You'll probably never meet one, or you already have and they were ironically the friendliest person around, because to them, you're a civilian.
      I remember a family holiday when I was like, 10. My folks and I were staying at a top resort in Turkey and one night at dinner, I saw a bunch of dudes in suits. I'd played enough games to know that they were probably mobsters, even did that cheek kiss thing you see in mafia movies. One of them even asked my dad if he was enjoying the resort and made small talk with him.

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Год назад

      USA private contractors are waaay scarier than the Yakuza

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Год назад

      @@SSD_Penumbra if they actually went away the japanese stock market would tank since they own such a big part of it but nothing comes close of the economic grip the jewish mafia has on international banking and the USA politics

    • @NotUrDJ
      @NotUrDJ Год назад +7

      Sayyids are the descendants of the Prophet, i myself am one. It doesn't have anything to do with a special group. You'd have Sayyids within the Taliban as well. And yeah Afghanistan isn't in the middle east.

    • @ben_bennet
      @ben_bennet Год назад +6

      @@NotUrDJ Yeah arabic countries would have been better. I am not Muslim so dont know why the Name would be an issue or if its just personal. The person told me that and assumed I would understand. I am from the north EU and Christian so I have no clue. I learned from this person that their family tree is related to Mohammed. Would that be an issue? Do the Taliban see your family as actual relatives? The person said because of the situation with the Taliban they couldnt go too far behind the border. Because of the "disagreement". They had an argument, I dont know how to translate it better.

  • @garrysekelli6776
    @garrysekelli6776 Год назад +190

    I remember the Tamagochi wars of the 1990s. Absolutely brutal.

    • @garrysekelli6776
      @garrysekelli6776 Год назад +35

      @@miguelsilva9085 such carnage. So many Tamagochi deaths on all sides.

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Год назад +40

      they literally killed a SEGA executive in the 90s. Oh, sorry, officially, he "dissapeared"

    • @chriscormac231
      @chriscormac231 Год назад +7

      @@miguelsilva9085 green duck creature

    • @maxrobe
      @maxrobe Год назад +16

      Mine is in a box in the shed. Don't know if it's dead or alive. Very quantum.

    • @Aliyah_666
      @Aliyah_666 Год назад +9

      ​@@maxrobeDefinitely one of those states lol

  • @TheCancelCult
    @TheCancelCult Год назад +340

    Its really interesting how war, especially soldiers coming home and reintegration into normal society, have impacted organized crime. Yakuza, Hells Angels, the Mexican cartels, etc.

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Год назад

      organized crime are just a paralel state. they have their private companies, politicians, managers, armies and their own police. You think Coca Cola and Mcdonalds couldn't enforce violence or finantial destruction on someone that crosses them? Lobbying is just the mafia but legal.

    • @gungalgeno-7077
      @gungalgeno-7077 Год назад +112

      It kinda does make sense though. You have a bunch of shell-shocked, PTSD riddled young men who come home from war and just... not adjusting to modern society. So they either end up going into crime where the brutality is normal, or they just sadly off themselves because the gov doesn't care half of a rat's ass about the young men they threw into no man's land.

    • @badart3204
      @badart3204 Год назад +55

      Even in premodern times they would often become bandits or mercenaries because they could make use of their skills that way

    • @cattysplat
      @cattysplat Год назад +47

      People also forget that fatherless families make tearaway children. World wars killed all classes and races so nobody was immune to this. My father's brother joined a gang to get a father figure in his life.

    • @kennethgibson456
      @kennethgibson456 Год назад +33

      That is explored in Peaky Blinders as they were veterans of WW1 with PTSD and shellshock affecting main characters.

  • @petermgruhn
    @petermgruhn Год назад +100

    "Having 36 people killed ... in a war between organized crime families was unheard of in Japan..."
    Sengoku period

    • @gewuerzwanze5627
      @gewuerzwanze5627 Год назад +17

      But they werent organized crime fa-
      Shit youre right

    • @God-ch8lq
      @God-ch8lq Год назад +5

      but back then you had some immortal dude with a grappling-hook cyborg arm running around and shanking other immortal dudes w/ a magical anti-immortality sword he got from some kid

    • @matterking1
      @matterking1 Год назад +1

      Sekiro?

    • @zapan9643
      @zapan9643 Год назад +1

      @@God-ch8lq "I don't even know this kid." - Sekiro

  • @Sabytiger
    @Sabytiger Год назад +20

    Every time Dank says "this could be its own video"
    I immediately say "Yes, please!"

  • @sonofjack6286
    @sonofjack6286 Год назад +10

    No wonder the Yakuza love the Yakuza games so much. Not only does it include their love for karaoke and disco, but includes an actual assassination of a Yakuza leader.

  • @hashchief664
    @hashchief664 Год назад +96

    When I was in Tokyo a few years back, I kept seeing these guys who were dressed like Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos. They were middle aged and always seemed fairly confident and almost gave off an aura of being somewhat untouchable. Always thought they were Yakuza. The high end tracksuits were so pristine with their watches and chains.

    • @zaza7170
      @zaza7170 Год назад +14

      There is a young generation of Japanese people who love Mexican-American Chicano culture and they dress like this. So who knows maybe there are old japanese guys who are into Italian American Soprano culture lol

    • @notani3533
      @notani3533 Год назад +5

      If passerby don't look lay their eye or kept their head low around them, then you know.

    • @KingRa153
      @KingRa153 Год назад +1

      @@notani3533 id never dont care who you are

    • @banneduser5187
      @banneduser5187 Год назад

      ​@@KingRa153 Pffftttt... those 3 fat guys in tracksuits would karate chop you into oblivion

  • @shibapatrol801
    @shibapatrol801 Год назад +20

    The anti-Yakuza law can be felt by ordinary citizens of Japan, too. Every time you open a bank account, credit card, join a gym, sign up to a driving school to hopefully get a driving lesson; you're asked as part of the questionnaire whether you have any affiliation with the Yakuza.

    • @banneduser5187
      @banneduser5187 Год назад +2

      It's a foolproof strategy. Impossible to evade

    • @shibapatrol801
      @shibapatrol801 Год назад +4

      @@banneduser5187 Japanese government actually has a comprehensive list of most (if not all) members of Yakuza in Japan. Lying on an application would put these individuals in big trouble for both breaking the anti-Yakuza law as well as fraud charges. Huge fine with jail time.

  • @maggintons
    @maggintons Год назад +32

    Never would I have thought Majima's yakuza family represented an actual movement of yakuza Rambo gangs.

  • @ShredCo
    @ShredCo Год назад +79

    Japanese are orderly, not because of the Yakuza but because they are Japanese. Japan has not been subject to mass immigration so they have a strong sense of community.

    • @ShredCo
      @ShredCo Год назад +17

      @@Nitsua2828 Yes, it's impossible to ignore the attack on Western culture. The real question is who is orchestrating it and why?

    • @homemetalstudios759
      @homemetalstudios759 Год назад +1

      orchestrated by people with money that want more of it.

    • @KingC89
      @KingC89 Год назад +10

      ​@@ShredCoI'm not sure but they always wear these weird little hats and stuff. I'm still trying to figure it out.

    • @redcrown5154
      @redcrown5154 Год назад +8

      jews@@ShredCo

    • @ShredCo
      @ShredCo 11 месяцев назад +8

      @@elijahparks2417 Ok, Stevie Wonder

  • @xyanide1986
    @xyanide1986 Год назад +57

    Yeah the last thing Japan needs is a crime power vacuum. Also the Yakuza games series is quite popular in Japan.

    • @SSD_Penumbra
      @SSD_Penumbra Год назад +25

      Even amongst yakuza members.
      I remember reading an article when Yakuza 3 came out and it was basically an interview with two Yakuza guys while playing the game. Its pretty close to real life dealings, only they're a lot more subtle about beating the piss out of someone in the street.

    • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
      @ChucksSEADnDEAD Год назад +40

      ​@@SSD_Penumbra "This is true, I knew a Yakuza member who ran an orphanage"
      "But wasn't he doing that for a tax scam?"
      "Of course he was, but by all accounts he ran a decent place"

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Год назад +17

      ​@@ChucksSEADnDEAD
      "professionals have standards"

    • @DragonMaster360
      @DragonMaster360 Год назад +9

      ​@@oz_jones"be polite"

    • @mk6315
      @mk6315 Год назад +8

      @@DragonMaster360 “be efficient”

  • @TBustah
    @TBustah Год назад +59

    Japan’s government asking the yakuza to run security isn’t too far removed from something America did.
    Several years after Al Capone was imprisoned and the feds seized his assets, his personal armored limousine was put into service as the official state car. It was old even then (a 1928, FDR started using it around the time we entered the war), but it sufficed until the Sunshine Special had completed its security overhaul.

    • @coltonwhite2518
      @coltonwhite2518 Год назад

      Not to mention the precursor to the CIA used the Mafia to secure docks from Nazi saboteurs.

    • @JustinCase-h3f
      @JustinCase-h3f Год назад +1

      And didn't they ask Lucky Luciano to protect the docks from sabotage during the war?

  • @Brass_Heathen
    @Brass_Heathen Год назад +19

    When the hitmen unloaded on those guys in the elevator i bet at least one of them thought "Fuck, now we have to take the stairs"😅

  • @Malum09
    @Malum09 Год назад +104

    Very interesting to learn how the Yakuza are a defense line to avoid worst gangsters to take roots in the country.

    • @tdoran616
      @tdoran616 Год назад +45

      Meanwhile in the UK the style of organised crime is gone. Crime is now random. The days when English crime families had control over certain areas is gone. Crime is a lot more random now and anyone can be targeted by African or Middle Eastern gangs

    • @BoredInTheComments
      @BoredInTheComments Год назад +24

      ​@@tdoran616multiculturalism at its finest. Diversity is great right!?

    • @tom-vf1xv
      @tom-vf1xv Год назад +5

      @@BoredInTheComments it is our strength.

    • @jackhazardous4008
      @jackhazardous4008 Год назад +28

      The issue is foreign gangs dont care about the native population. When the drug crisis they create gets too bad to be profotable, they just leave.

    • @1810jeff
      @1810jeff Год назад +13

      @@tdoran616 organized crime is kinda necessary in a country where firearm ownership is very restricted. Unorganized crime can't really survive in an environment where everyone can be carrying a 9mm under their jacket.

  • @ChuckieGee-nc8jp
    @ChuckieGee-nc8jp Год назад +22

    I could listen to a Scottish man say Japanese words all day. Especially the ones that end in 'goochi' and 'oomi' and 'oochigoomiyumi' lol

  • @samfisherxboxog8925
    @samfisherxboxog8925 Год назад +241

    That “we are not the same” perfectly describes Japans views on foreigners. Though the young generation is more accepting

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Год назад +58

      Sadly

    • @sintheemptyone8108
      @sintheemptyone8108 Год назад +22

      @@oz_jones Considering how the japanese apparently have treated each other like trash in places like education in the past, that makes the young generation less hypocritical in comparison.

    • @xxxm981
      @xxxm981 Год назад +121

      Considering how europe looks now versus Japan, maybe they were actually correct on that stance.

    • @samfisherxboxog8925
      @samfisherxboxog8925 Год назад

      @@sintheemptyone8108 The flip side to that I’ve seen stuff from their classrooms from documentaries were the teachers are doing the same thing the west is doing. Getting them to hate themselves and their country. I give them 30 to 40 years at max to where Tokyo will look just like LA an absolute wasteland.

    • @samfisherxboxog8925
      @samfisherxboxog8925 Год назад +7

      @@sintheemptyone8108 Also saying how the Japanese are not the natives of Japan but the Ainu are.

  • @hmshood9212
    @hmshood9212 Год назад +44

    Japan’s so peaceful….
    Except when it’s not, which is always.

    • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
      @ChucksSEADnDEAD Год назад +11

      Girls in a trip to Japan: "OMG I love Japan, it's so peaceful!"
      Boys: "TENNO HEKA BANZAAAAAI!"

    • @Noperare
      @Noperare Год назад +2

      ​@@ChucksSEADnDEADjapanese were the OG space marines shouting "for the Emperor!" as he charges into battle

  • @troygarza5720
    @troygarza5720 Год назад +147

    Honestly when you read up on what they did after the nukes where dropped in WW2 you realize how powerful they are and how connected culturally they are to the people and society of Japan.

    • @InnerDness
      @InnerDness Год назад +36

      That whole system of feudal alliances never really went away in Japan, it just got printed onto other things. One of them is their corporate culture, one is the yakuza, and the places where one ends and the other begins can be fuzzy sometimes. In the west, feudalism gradually morphed and evolved into something else. Aside from some military technology, Japan sort of went from a "medieval" (which is a loaded word but also mercifully short) sort of military dictatorship to a modern industrial nation in the span of about 30 years.

    • @danielmorris7648
      @danielmorris7648 Год назад +4

      But they literally aren't and never were. The yakuza are akin to the bloods and crips as far as influence and finances they are nothing compared to European organized crime

    • @InnerDness
      @InnerDness Год назад +4

      ​@miguelsilva9085 a rose by any other name. I can't speak to how much they're influenced by Confucianism because I don't know, but regardless, it's a holdover from a political philosophy around a thousand years old, since most of what people think of as Confucianism is more Tang Dynasty neo-Confucianism

    • @troygarza5720
      @troygarza5720 Год назад +12

      @@danielmorris7648 yeah you don't know what they deal in. Aka child sex. It's a acceptable thing in Japan and they supply the market. Literally tens of thousands of little girls went missing after the nukes where dropped and where take in. They got more money than you know. Thats like saying a organization that's been around for thousands of years successfully is broke. There's a difference between not being flashy and being broke.

    • @JoshuaKevinPerry
      @JoshuaKevinPerry Год назад

      @@troygarza5720 I think we know the real reason the bombs were dropped now.

  • @deadeyecf5315
    @deadeyecf5315 Год назад +26

    A 30 minute tangent in a 60 minute video and I’m here for every second of it. 👍

  • @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin
    @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin Год назад +3

    8:00 - "Samurai period" refers ~1100 years of history. Just the sort of specificity I tune in for.

  • @steelballjack
    @steelballjack Год назад +28

    One of the best explanations of not only the Yama-Ichi Sensou but also great in-depth explanation of Yakuza terms.

  • @celtic1842
    @celtic1842 Год назад +79

    If you keep crime clean and you don't involve innocent people the police and your average people do not care.

    • @squirreltakular9049
      @squirreltakular9049 Год назад

      Not that clean. They are heavily into human trafficking.

    • @grahamstrouse1165
      @grahamstrouse1165 Год назад

      The American Mafia were pretty disciplined when it came to the use of violence during the height of their power. They mostly kept it in-house & went to pains to limit collateral damage. The more reckless & openly violent members and associates were usually dealt with in-house. Occasionally loose cannons were written off & left to the authorities as a gesture. It’s hard to say exactly when this began to unravel although I’d argue that the wheels began to come off the wagon when Albert Anastasia rose to prominence.

  • @nicelydunwell5681
    @nicelydunwell5681 Год назад +8

    "Everything isn't cherry blossoms and Boba tea." Lol😂

  • @StrongStyleFiction
    @StrongStyleFiction Год назад +23

    Gets passed over for being too timid and not aggressive enough to run the Yakuza family, says 'fuck that I'm starting a war."

    • @vice2versa
      @vice2versa Год назад +4

      Treating a timid guy as weak can lead to devastating consequences lol. School shootings in america for example.

    • @zapan9643
      @zapan9643 Год назад

      @@vice2versa the weak should fear the strong.
      We'll all be together soon.
      Imma make a whole lot of friends.
      We'll all be together soon. Soon enough.

  • @FahqTyrants
    @FahqTyrants Год назад +4

    Great movie I just watched called "Family" about a poor kid joining Yakuza during this time. Funny how you came out with this mad lads ep after I watched that. Great episode!

  • @SkyrimTheshrimp
    @SkyrimTheshrimp Год назад +34

    As an American i can say the Japanese will regret trying to crush the yakuza I'd much rather have them then the shit bag gangs we have here

    • @nicholaslittlefield4424
      @nicholaslittlefield4424 Год назад

      So long as they don't bring in immigrants from sub room temperature IQ nations they'll be alright.

    • @Barbaroossa
      @Barbaroossa Год назад +3

      Absolutely. Specially when you factor in the Nigerian gangs and how detested these gangs are throughout the entirety of the African continent.

  • @FLABrowncoat
    @FLABrowncoat Год назад +14

    I will come back to RAID when Dank is made into a Champion in the game.

  • @Pfuhler455
    @Pfuhler455 Год назад +199

    Dank, Lord Miles needs a mad lad episode or something. He's been missing for 3-4 months and on his twitter a "friend" of Miles (The Taliban) is tweeting out how much he "loves" Afghanistan and that he's completely "safe"...

    • @cullenkerr6556
      @cullenkerr6556 Год назад +57

      He’s 100% dead

    • @qhu3878
      @qhu3878 Год назад +75

      Lord Miles is the defintion of play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I genuinely hope he'll come out of this at least alive, but if we're being honest with ourselves, he's most likely buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in the afghan desert.

    • @redacted5035
      @redacted5035 Год назад +7

      I thought it was confirmed he was executed already??? Dat boi DED ded

    • @FortuneZer0
      @FortuneZer0 Год назад +27

      inb4 Lord Miles establishes a british protectorate thats not under the rule of britain.

    • @LivebythecodeVJLEE
      @LivebythecodeVJLEE Год назад +13

      There needs to be one after his status is confirmed.

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 Год назад +6

    The attempted assassination attempt at a limbo contest made me think of a dark Futurama episode where Hermes Conrad has a hit put on him.

  • @TheSolidSnake1985
    @TheSolidSnake1985 Год назад +2

    I'm just leaving this here. 'Battles Without Honor and Humanity' a film series that ran from the early 70s to the early 00s. Enjoy them I know I did.

  • @TiernanWilkinson
    @TiernanWilkinson Год назад +66

    I think that cracking down on the Yakuza is a mistake. Not only were they a strong bulwark to more brutal foreign elements, but they kept a certain aspect of Japanese Bushido culture and tradition alive. What's more, they actually did good work for the community. Honestly they seem to share a lot of parallels to biker gangs in the US. I have honestly a lot of respect for both; they live by a code, they mostly don't target innocents, they do legit stuff, they're a part and parcel of their own nation's culture, and they are a barrier to foreign elements, all things that are less true of the modern governments that seek to wipe them out.

    • @vik8126
      @vik8126 Год назад +7

      bad take

    • @Yusuke_Denton
      @Yusuke_Denton Год назад +7

      100%. Even ignoring the Japanese cultural aspects, criminals, creeps and thugs will always be a part of life. Letting them self-organize and police their own groups is a first line of control for low-level street crime, while you have undercover police monitoring the groups and pulling in the reigns when they get out of line and endanger the public. (like bombing bridges or leaving grenades in the streets)

    • @Yusuke_Denton
      @Yusuke_Denton Год назад +2

      @Peppabot Thank you!

    • @somejerk5662
      @somejerk5662 Год назад +3

      Which is exactly why global interests want them wiped out.

    • @pom791
      @pom791 Год назад

      not only swallowing the propaganda but spouting it as truth in return

  • @kibagami74
    @kibagami74 Год назад +5

    As far as the Yakuza practice of cutting off the little finger, give credit to Black Rain, that scene was done very well. A great Yakuza film btw.

  • @kavemanthewoodbutcher
    @kavemanthewoodbutcher Год назад +12

    "A weekend in Mexico" I'd watch that video from Count Dankula!

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Год назад

      Warlords on Tour!

  • @jackjackson2772
    @jackjackson2772 Год назад +27

    Finished work. Cracked a beer. Had a billy and watching new MadLads. Life is good ❤

    • @robertmanes9333
      @robertmanes9333 Год назад +3

      Tf is a billy?

    • @Clint52279
      @Clint52279 Год назад +2

      I searched slang words for "billy" and in the UK it means "a condom." So the guy is lying about having just one beer if he ate a condom.

    • @neilcampbell8499
      @neilcampbell8499 Год назад

      ​@@robertmanes9333a Billy bong? Billy Bong Thornton 😂

    • @robertmanes9333
      @robertmanes9333 Год назад +1

      @@neilcampbell8499 maybe one of those big mouth billy bass that you put on the wall and it sings?

    • @jackjackson2772
      @jackjackson2772 Год назад

      I'm gonna leave you all to speculate lol
      Search in straya mb?

  • @Echo2-2
    @Echo2-2 Год назад +3

    This is a topic I have heard little about until now. Awesome job!

  • @Swampboiii
    @Swampboiii Год назад +1

    Bro I’m not even 20 minutes into this
    Between your dope as hell accent, banging intro and how knowledgeable you are on this you got my sub and I’m gonna go through your whole channel now!
    Idk why RUclips put this in my feed but I’m thrilled it did
    Keep up the awesome work man!

  • @garrysekelli6776
    @garrysekelli6776 Год назад +11

    7:30 from that video of the irate guy jumping out of the van I could definitely tell that the one guy was a Yakuza and the other dude was a foreign drug dealer.

  • @AncestorEmpire1
    @AncestorEmpire1 Год назад +18

    Conflict can sometimes spiral out of control….
    England and France: “YOU DON’T SAY?!”

  • @ricardoguanipa8275
    @ricardoguanipa8275 Год назад +12

    watching old Japanese Wrestling videos, sometimes you can spot in the front rows, men wearing suits, not cheering, not clapping just sitting arm crossed watching the action in the ring

    • @TheTacoKing13
      @TheTacoKing13 5 месяцев назад

      I believe it was Jake the Snake Robert who was told NOT to dive into crowd because they were in the front row. He dove into the crowd and they had to hurry and rush him out of the areana because they tried to kill him after.
      Edit: it was Terry Funk.

  • @jasonbates2687
    @jasonbates2687 Год назад +4

    One of my favorite story tellers on RUclips.

  • @ImInLoveWithBulla
    @ImInLoveWithBulla Год назад +2

    The ideas of open Yakuza houses made me think of my time in Southern California. There was an Angels roadhouse, as in, Hell’s Angels, not ten minutes from our house. Nowadays, I’m sure it’s safe to visit for a random drink. Back in the day, I imagine you knew well enough to stay the fuck away from there.

  • @joyyeah4952
    @joyyeah4952 Год назад +11

    Yama when they get a mosquito bite: Ichi

  • @BillRalens
    @BillRalens Год назад +87

    I had a run in with a member of the yakuza when I lived in Japan. He took my regular resting face as an elevator door opened as an insult. I bought what I came for and he stopped me and wanted to know why I made that face at him. I said I wasn't making a face but if there's a problem we should go outside. He dismissed me like a flea. Every once in a while the police would raid their offices and there would be protests. It's a weird thing.

    • @j.2512
      @j.2512 Год назад +1

      i'd honestly wouldn't mind them if they truly keep the africans and middle easterners away

    • @broadkiwi6882
      @broadkiwi6882 Год назад +19

      Him taking that like an insult reminds me of a lot of eshays here in New Zealand, they'll just argue with you for doing stuff that's normal.

    • @cattysplat
      @cattysplat Год назад +17

      @@broadkiwi6882 It's like any street punk. They want to feel big and "own" their patch by intimidating others just passing through. It's really very pathetic.

    • @John-Stark
      @John-Stark Год назад +10

      Wait, the Yakuza games described the mooks of Yakuza gangs to a T?

    • @EliteZer0
      @EliteZer0 Год назад +6

      Sounds less like a Yakuza and more like a wannabe tough guy.

  • @Lawpering
    @Lawpering Год назад +54

    I've been binge watching count dankula for months. As soon as I saw this video on my feed I freaked out, started frothing at the mouth while pulling on my pants.

  • @deewills353
    @deewills353 Год назад +11

    Why are you such a good story teller? I started binge watching your Absolute Mad Lads in my spare time & I'm hooked...damn you;) I should'nt like you because I cant "see myself" in you,you look nothin like me(isnt that how it works?)Lol! Good stuff man^

  • @EX-JW-SJD
    @EX-JW-SJD Год назад +6

    Very well told. I actually learnt something there, and I've been living in Japan since 2008.

  • @bellduke6417
    @bellduke6417 Год назад +55

    Hour of gang violence documentary, hi dankula, thank you.

  • @davidbush8341
    @davidbush8341 Год назад +56

    I wish a Japanese film director would remake The Godfather trilogy with the Yakuza. Imagine the horse head scene if it was replaced by Horse Sashimi.

    • @Gideon7014
      @Gideon7014 Год назад +16

      Battles Without Honour and Humanity or the 'Yakuza Papers' series is kind of regarded as just that. They even came out around the same time

    • @penisenvy1212
      @penisenvy1212 Год назад +7

      Unrelated yakuza film but give dead or alive by miike a try, ending is worth it alone

    • @Soulcairn647
      @Soulcairn647 Год назад

      Battles Without Honour and Humanity and Sonatine are great

  • @Notlegallyaduck
    @Notlegallyaduck Год назад +17

    I promise you, the Yakuza are not dying. A mafia boss is business man. When the industry changes, a shrewd businessman will change his company with it. If anything, the Japanese are known for being shrewd businessmen.

  • @tacsquirrel
    @tacsquirrel Год назад +11

    That wasn’t a tangent, it was just great storytelling.

  • @NickThorbjørnsen2207
    @NickThorbjørnsen2207 Год назад +5

    I think this just strengthens the point that if you attempt to censor something they just go underground and are harder to track.

  • @JustWhyFFS
    @JustWhyFFS Год назад +15

    Holy shit that ad... I feel your pain and laughter Dank.

  • @Boogie445
    @Boogie445 Год назад +8

    Would be cool to series about crime organisations through history. Like the yakuza, Hassasin, maffia etc

  • @dziewiaty
    @dziewiaty Год назад +5

    I'm not gonna lie I liked very much Raid RPG PVP DVD sketch trying to be immersive while Dankula is losing you laugh you lose (sponsorship) challenge.

  • @martinbell5684
    @martinbell5684 Год назад +3

    I can't believe he shot him during a limbo dance. How low can you go.

  • @Blackfire.
    @Blackfire. Год назад +2

    "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't" is probably what he meant near the end

  • @Texasplit
    @Texasplit Год назад +60

    Anyone else feel like this story would make a GREAT historical strategy game?

    • @robertsteiner4696
      @robertsteiner4696 Год назад +11

      Yakuza DLC for Empire of Sins when?

    • @pieceofschmidtgamer
      @pieceofschmidtgamer Год назад +4

      @@robertsteiner4696 Awesome, but I'm pretty sure that game is pretty much dead.

    • @DragonMaster360
      @DragonMaster360 Год назад

      Maybe an XCOM-style 4X strategy game w/ roleplay elements?

    • @pieceofschmidtgamer
      @pieceofschmidtgamer Год назад +5

      @@DragonMaster360 That would be Empire of Sin.

    • @Creedio90
      @Creedio90 Год назад +1

      i feel like this story would make a great action fighting game, with a focus on story!

  • @SirBrown91
    @SirBrown91 Год назад +138

    The yakuza literally have magazines and corporate offices 😂 hardly a secret organisation

    • @SplendidCoffee0
      @SplendidCoffee0 Год назад +30

      Plus, they do lots of business with the bastards over at Konami.

    • @NathanCassidy721
      @NathanCassidy721 Год назад

      I haven’t dived too deep into them but they similar to the American Mafia and intelligence agencies in that for every Al Capone and James Comey we hear about, there are 2000 other people we don’t hear about, if ever.

    • @long-hair-dont-care88.
      @long-hair-dont-care88. Год назад +12

      Nintendo!!!!

    • @redline841
      @redline841 Год назад +29

      ​@@long-hair-dont-care88.
      The Yakuza families using all their might to make Penny the sexiest character in all of Pokemon

    • @danielmorris7648
      @danielmorris7648 Год назад +4

      Because the yakuza were never powerful they use the name recognition now to drum up business

  • @thesaiyanking85
    @thesaiyanking85 Год назад +15

    Yes, the mad lads must continue

  • @billwaterson9492
    @billwaterson9492 Год назад +5

    37:30
    Damn, I was really excited at the idea of one family splitting into two sides of a group. The pen and the sword or something like that. They would complement each other and nonviolently compete as brothers with honor.
    A huge win for humanity lost to hubris.

  • @Guh_roomer_Gravedigger
    @Guh_roomer_Gravedigger Год назад +7

    Great true story, well told. You just earned a subscriber.

  • @wirepaladin4317
    @wirepaladin4317 Год назад +36

    Remember this, the Yakuza are not vigilantes that help citizens. There is always a cost for their help. They charge a percentage of you business, weekly payments etc. Nothing is free with them and they are not good hearted. Extortion of business owners is their most lucrative money maker, either in Japan or the US.

    • @jesperdenbraven1995
      @jesperdenbraven1995 Год назад +18

      Sounds a lot like government and taxes except they do what they promise

    • @John-Stark
      @John-Stark Год назад +19

      ​@@jesperdenbraven1995at least with the Yakuza you know no one will fuck with your store if you pay them...

    • @thedragonofechigo7878
      @thedragonofechigo7878 Год назад +2

      ​@John-Stark while it's the opposite with the government

  • @dyingearth
    @dyingearth Год назад +6

    After the funeral of that assassinated boss, his subordinates took his ash, put them in a sake, and they drank it and swore a blood oath for vengeance. It played out like your typical yakuza movie plot.

  • @NegiSenseiTV
    @NegiSenseiTV Год назад +16

    The origin of the Yakuza are in two very interesting groups Bakuto (gamblers) and Tekiya (Tinkerers) and both contributed different things. The most came from the Bakuto, if only because they had a good deal of organization and did the dirty work of employers. They would go and try and win back the money from the workers on the behalf of employers. For this they were given some privileges not afforded common people. The leader of a Bakuto group could carry a small sword almost like a junior version of the samurai. I did a video about this if you're curious to know more.

  • @danieljohnson2005
    @danieljohnson2005 Год назад +1

    They’re most definitely still around. I lived in Japan for five years and never noticed them until a friend pointed them out around my second or third year there. If you walk around Kabukicho in Shinjuku or the main bar area near Kawasaki station, you’ll definitely see them standing around. It really blew me away when my friend pointed them out because they were out in plain sight the whole time, and I just never noticed them.

  • @mr.sirmd.1615
    @mr.sirmd.1615 Год назад +2

    You've got to do a Mad Lads on Bob Munden, he was a quick draw artist with the title of "Fastest Man With a Gun Who Ever Lived." and the video recordings exist to prove it. His feats bordered on straight up superhuman.

  • @MrLolx2u
    @MrLolx2u Год назад +6

    The systemic co-existence in Japan between law, civilian and Yakuza are actually pretty awesome to see and been close to a century of practice.
    After the war, Japan was in ruins and somehow, the Yakuzas during the late 40s were booming in cash when they ran smuggling rings in trading with black market supplies and even bribing local US garrisons to give or "sell" them supplies so they can flip it out to the general public and when the Korean War kicked off, many Gumis became transporters for the US forces too in shipping US military supplies like medical and food towards Busan and Incheon.
    With this influx of cash, the Yakuza at one point in 1946-1955 were even richer than their own municipal governments thus the authorities couldn't control them as they were severely out of funds to even have weapons and cash flow to combat the Yakuzas so what they did was have a compromise that the Yakuzas would curb the dark side of Japan with their own set of code and laws whilst curbing the sudden influx of foreign gangs that came in during the late 40s like the Triads from China and also the Khangpae (Korean Organized Crime syndicates) from Korea. Whereas the Yakuzas rules the underworld, the normal municipal police force would rule the normal jurisdiction of Japan and the cops would only touch them if they encroach heavily with their dealings into normal civilian side. Things was kept at that status quo for over 5-6 decades only till recently and cops can freely enter Yakuza territory to deal with petty crimes and even heavy crimes without much impedement from the Yakuza factions themselves.
    It wasn't only until ex-PM Shinzo Abe started to create a new law to clamp down the Yakuzas and have the cops ramp up their arrests and clearing of Yakuza factions after reports of Yakuza families forcing their debtors who borrowed from their respective loan sharking companies to forcefully clear radiation materials in Fukushima during that nuclear disaster that the co-existence started to waver. Since then, more and more Yakuza families are on the thread of being wiped out and some even speculated that the assassination of Shinzo Abe wasn't by a mad man but in actuality was an ordered hit by one of a collab between Yakuza families as they're disgruntled with him.
    Also, the tattoo thing.... It isn't a necessary thing to do it but you're advised to. Full body suit tattoos are a symbol of the Yakuza but that doesn't mean you have to do it. It's up to personal preference and there are indeed high ranking members who didn't do full suits but had other oriental designs just on their backs like Goddess of Mercy, a tiger climbing a rock or what-not.
    Besides, tattoos done by dedicated Yakuza masters are NOT to be joked about as Yakuza member themselves can't pick the design that they wanna do. Every tattoo that they got are handpicked by the masters according to their reputation on the street and how "strong" their character are and whatever the tattoo artist picks, it's what it is and how it reflects the person to be once it's flashed out.

    • @UnsoberIdiot
      @UnsoberIdiot 9 месяцев назад

      Dang, and I kinda liked Abe.
      And honestly, forcing debtors to do community work isn't the worst thing criminals do to debtors.

  • @Rustsamurai1
    @Rustsamurai1 Год назад +15

    Yamaguchi gumi.
    I was sitting in a cafe when it filled with very large suited thugs, two of which were soon engaged in some sort of negotiation about what to eat with coffee. They thought I didnt speak Japanese.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Год назад

      Were the suits comically large?

    • @banneduser5187
      @banneduser5187 Год назад

      your lucky to be alive mate

  • @isamuokashii
    @isamuokashii Год назад +3

    Definitely enjoying these tangents you do, i never knew Yakuza were such a unique blend of crime and justice like they are currently.

  • @alalvarez7301
    @alalvarez7301 Год назад +2

    >Wearing a Wu Tang Clan hoodie for the Yakuza Madlad
    based
    >Wearing it for the damned promotion
    You have marked yourself for death Mark, prepare to death via Mac-10 2010 ninjas

  • @dopey473
    @dopey473 Год назад +1

    Fun fact: as you have said the Yakuza game series has a lot of references to real world events, some pretty obscure and very detailed...
    Totally unrelated fact is that the yakuza started off as gambling groups and as such eventually got involved with gambling business and later video games. I'll let you fill in the blanks.

  • @InnocentKhajiit
    @InnocentKhajiit Год назад +90

    I would like to once more petition for Joan of Arc as a madlass.
    Between her time trouncing the English, leading the French and her... interesting stances on heretics of eastern europe, she more than deserves her spot.

    • @InnerDness
      @InnerDness Год назад +10

      She "led the French" the same way the Philly Phanatic captains the Philadelphia baseball team

    • @JoshuaKevinPerry
      @JoshuaKevinPerry Год назад +1

      Also her bff was a serial killer

    • @bargainhuntbricks420
      @bargainhuntbricks420 Год назад +6

      He hates the French though. Haha

    • @Escalusfr
      @Escalusfr Год назад +4

      ​@@bargainhuntbricks420Which is weird for a Scott, but you know, not every man can make his ancestors proud

    • @johnm7491
      @johnm7491 Год назад +3

      @@Escalusfr Nobody in Scotland likes the french lol!

  • @ItoHiyori
    @ItoHiyori Год назад +6

    32 minute intro. I completely forgot the video is about a gang war. 😂

  • @KakashiMike
    @KakashiMike Год назад +5

    These make excellent podcasts for going on walks. Love the series Dank!

  • @Mitwad
    @Mitwad Год назад +2

    As far as I know the guys who did those horrible things to Junko were friends to some Yakuza members and they were most certainly going to join it after graduation.