@@CristianSalles1 he didn’t say they were out he say they were on their way out. Maybe a bit hyperbolic but they’re under massive pressure considering what they used to get away with. But yeah they’re still super powerful. I don’t imagine they’re gonna go anywhere in our lifetime.
True story time: I was working on a project for the Navy back in 07. One night I went out to this club with a coworker of mine who had been in Japan a while. It was the type of club where you sing karaoke and hang out with some girls who work there. Anyway, we’d been singing all night and ready to call it quits when the bar tender gave us a couple free drinks. He said to my friend that “the guy at the table wanted to hear us sing September by Earth Wind and Fire” since it was one of his favourite songs. Being tired I said no but my friend realised that this guy was Yakuza and said “We’d better sing our asses off.” We did a good job because he bought us drinks for the next couple hours and even had a driver bring us back to the hotel we were staying at when the club closed.
@@AA-ok5jz Are you familiar with the term whataboutism? It's where any criticism of the thing you like (for example, "Japan is cozy with the Yakuza") is met by a non sequitur attack on the 'other side' (Did you know that in the west..."), despite the person who made the initial criticism NEVER having made the point you're trying to refute. Person A: "I think that X is bad" Person B: "Yeah, well, Y is bad!!!" You're person B.
If video games have taught me anything, Yakuza basically help people out with wierd side-adventures, particpating in the local nightlife, with activity such as singing Karaoke and playing darts. Yakuza also take on normal jobs such as Taxi driving, running an Orphanage, working in construction, managing realestate and clubs, fishing, and running a baseball team. Yakuza constantly get attacked on the street by people looking for a fight, and have dramatic confrontations where they somehow can rip off their jacket, shirt and tie, all in one motion, before punching each other.
pretty much remove the last bit about being attacked randomly and add in extortion, racketeering, and distillery management and you got everything real yakuza have done
The irony is that the police also hire yakuza to go after criminals who hide from the police, which means that the Yakuza basically acts as literal Batman
always found it odd how people liked to defend organized crime by saying "but they keep petty crime down!" like, how do you think they make their money? gardening?
Yeah, murderers and pickpockets are bad, but is having them taken care of by a bunch of sociopaths who will gut your child and cook him in a soup to force feed you with for owing them money somehow better?
@@realglutenfree Yup, yup and yup again. And their ways of dealing with people who owe them or people who they extort is just....worse than any petty criminal's ways.
“That’s why gangsters don’t just hand out business cards” Surprisingly in London that’s EXACTLY what plugs do. And it isn’t just a number on a scrap of paper, some of those guys got some real nice ones
Hey man! Graphic designers need their coin too! Drug dealers, murderers, gangsters...etc.. as long as they have their money in order, creating a logo, business card, brand, hats, mugs etc... is no problem. (This was sarcasm, had to put it in parenthesis in case anyone is autistic and struggles with understanding sarcasm most of the time as I do.)
I don't know, this guys style is just way too close to grey for me. He obviously won't be as good as the original creator at it, I feel like he should really try to find his own thing. This honestly feels like it's crossed the border to theft.
CGP Grey has said himself that starting out by just imitating a creator you like and finding your own style from there is a perfectly fine way to do things.
Yakuza is a video game series about being a sharp suited man with a brick for a face in an 80’s disco suit suplexing another man in an 80’s disco suit into a mailbox.
"Yakuza didn't actually make Japan safer, they just made seem safer" well, that's a good business model actually. I can think of a lot of services sold that do just that. One of the famous examples is the gated communities in USA.
Well in that case seeming safer to anyone looking for a place to rob makes yourself safer because they’d rather not go through the trouble of hijacking the gate when they could find a place where they could just walk in, right?
@@umno9830 The fact is that gated communities in USA is that the burglary rate is exactly the same as the surrounding areas. And the aggregate crime rate is also the same. You can guess the reason, but in the end the service they are selling is the perception of safety and many other services also sell that perception.
I didn't expect to be recommended an old video like that, but it's missing some stuff: -Yakuza are on their way out, but mainly due to a staffing issue more than anything else. Young people are way less likely to become Yakuza than people who went through the lost decades or post-war Japan. -There are still Yakuza in plenty of places. There are entire businesses managed by Yakuza, including a lot you really don't want to enter (the bill is going to be salty and you won't have much of a warning about the 'complimentary services' piling up). -Honor isn't just a front. There are rules, and rule breakers get their fingers cut (and potentially more in extreme cases). All in all, it's pretty reflective of Japanese society, in a way. Apparently though, there are more rulebreakers who don't really get punished nowadays.
@@SheoGotSomeCheese In a way, yes, though it's not the only thing. There are a lot of newer Yakuza organizations or entire branches of existing organizations that are looser on rules. Profitable things like selling drugs (which is supposed to be taboo) are tempting to younger members, and with the democratization of pen-shaped pistols, it's become harder to stay in control. It's become easier for newcomers to gain and hold influence.
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I live in Japan and there’s still big, don’t let the media fool you. They’ve just learned to keep their circles tighter and they have family in law enforcement. They’re actually really chill people you can drink a beer with, just don’t cross them or mess with their business lol
@@bitterlemonboy They actually donate a lot of money to humanitarian efforts, like natural disasters. Granted, they probably got the money from ripping people off but that’s no different than any other business lol
@@bitterlemonboy they not actually that bad, they not get Yakuza even they are not hiding because there is no prove that they are "that evil" and like this Samuel MontyPython said .. they still a big group
@@samuelmontypython8381 That’s some bullshit logic, you can’t just enable criminal organizations like that. That’s not how regular businesses work. They’re literally stealing from and killing whoever they want, stop this nonsensical glorification.
@@12kenbutsuri Weirdly I had heard maybe the opposite, that they were clamping down on yakuza, like they can't open bank accounts and stuff so they can't pay for their kids school unless in cash which then gets the kid labelled and ostricised? I could be wrong on a lot of this that's why I'm asking
About the origin of the name "yakuza": I'm aware that it doesn't work with "8-9-3" when you try it with the usual Sino-Japanese reading, so let me explain: "ya" for "eight" is the native Japanese reading, "ku" is another form of "kyuu", and "za" is a shortened and modified form of "san". So, if you wondered, there you go.
八つ - [ya]ttsu 九時 - [ku]ji 三 is only read as "sa" in names (nanori), but I think it's not hard to believe they simply dropped the n because "yakuza" sounds better than "yakuzan". Sidenote: Japanese numbers are hard. This doesn't even scratch the surface. (Counter words.... ugh)
as a Chinese person I could say its fairly easy for me to understand Japanese numbers! I just hope that our cultures could coexist in the future and move on from past conflicts. :(
Well, my main issue is pronunciation. I can infer that the character after the number is a counter, but how do you say it? What it counts is generally also inferrable, but that is another question. Do you have counters like that in Chinese, too? I kind of doubt being Chinese helps much with the pronunciation. 九 - kyuu 九人 - kyuunin 九時 - kuji 九つ - kokonotsu And even if you know the counter word, it might be pronounced differently depending on which number it actually is: 九本 - kyuuhon 三本 - sanbon 一本 - ippon
I completed the all the Yakuza games this year, and kinda felt sad that the yakuza culture was coming to an end. Then I remembered how dangerous thy actually are. Well, not everyone is Kiryu or Ichiban or "insert good natured yakuza character from any fiction".
I've actually had American weebs try to convince me that Japan was such a utopia that even Yakuza was honorable and respectful. Where do these people get off?
@@isnitjustkit No I believe you. But you must remember that the rich donate lots of money, making them exempt from taxes that they would've lost money on. Donating this illegal cash, allows them to launder their money safely while paying their taxes too, keeping the tax man off their ass from any under the table operations they have ongoing. Art works this way too, that's why you see quite simple, meaningless things being classified as "abstract" and going for millions from private art dealers and just exhanching hands to pay eachothers donations and launder money lol. Not disagreeing with you, but Yakuza know how to make bread
Yakuza can transition much to financial crimes and supporting or blackmailing corrupt politicians and businessmen Actually most organised mafia groups would probably have that as their new business mo and push traditional supply and demand of drugs or contrabands to local gangs and corrupt officials
It’s true that yakuza don’t hide, but they keep their distance from strong citizens they bump into on a daily basis. Ask my friend Kazuma Kiryu, a respected citizens in kamurocho
The yakuza were only defeated by laws that made their tattoos and logos criminal offenses. They were more skilled at hiding dirt than any other organized crime groups in history
The only good thing to come out of Yakuza was some kid getting inspired to make a game about it, and that game being one of the best damn games of all time.
In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No english, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
It’s also hard to bust them because many have legitimate business as fronts and do legitimate business deals. They’re considered “semi-legal” companies tightrope walking the line.
I was surprised you didn't mention about the volunteer activity of Yakuza. Even though they are criminal groups, they often do volunteerings when disasters happen. Ex. after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, Yakuzas send relief supplies such as milk powder, diapers, and sanitary napkins. From the title, I thought you say about these kind of things lol
I mean that's just most of the modern world, not really Japan. Japan is just an accelerated view of what most modern countries will become with time, really. That's my opinion anyway.
@@kevinwalsh2922 maybe so, but Japan is so concern with the idea of saving face that they bury anything that they won't solve. Homeless people for example, Japan doesn't even count their homeless people. They don't provide anything like shelter or food. Another example is how the justice system works. It's full of people who don't want to lose face. If you're brought to court, the chance of you winning is next to zero, whether or not you're guilty. I don't know man, stuff like that is the reason i think Japan is so fake
@@dantederi5062 we don't provide shelter either, and our legislators often take away homeless people's existing shelter because "it looks bad". That's saving face much more than the Japanese are
"There must be something that can be done" Yes, Italy got round this problem of people being able to openly associate with the mafia and never go to jail just because they could not be convicted of a specific crime by simply making Mafia association a crime in itself.
I can only imagine what this guys RUclips Analytics are looking like right now. Hundreds if not thousands of new comments flying in on a 4 year old video. The YT algorithms weird but you love to see it
Heavily reminds me of the system in Terry Pratchett's discworld novels where in the city Ankh-Morpork there were (among "normal" ones) a thieves' guild and an assassins' guild. To legally steal or murder you had to have a license from one of those guilds, otherwise they'd murder you, skin you and tie you to a tree, and only in that order if you're very lucky. Along with that there were rules and subscription models for the murderer and thief trades (for example you could pay a certain sum a week to the thieves' guild to never be robbed, and for every single person there was a specific price that needed to be paid to have them killed, no assassin would just murder someone without getting paid for it). Add to that a democratic leader (he's the citizen, he has the vote) and you have a functional, although weird, city-state.
I live in Japan and I have never thought of the yakuza as dangerous. They generally run brothels and sometimes kill each other, but they don't get involved with ordinary people.
In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No english, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
Fun fact: Bob the Builder has five fingers instead of four in Japan. Local authorities decided to give him the extra digit so Japanese children would not think he was a member of the Yakuza. (I believe the footage was unaltered though, just main marketing image)
Pretty sure those 3 million people were told a myth. Yakuza did not appear until after ww2. They grew powerful on the surplus weapons and poverty after the war.
how old are you? it's Yakuza, you can't even spell it right after edit your comment. And Japanese are retards? that's the most stupid statement i've ever heard
I once got the words "Yakuza" and "Jacuzzi" mixed up while I was speaking at a cultural exchange event in Kyoto. After that I was in hot water with the Japanese mafia.
The joke is at least 20 years old because that’s when I first heard it, so no I didn’t steal it from another comment. Sorry I didn’t check to see if it was already posted but not everyone sees the same top comments.
That's a bit of a wrong statistic to show that these things are shrinking. % population doesn't mean anything because a) a smaller percentage of a growing world doesn't mean much when overall numerical growth is still increasing and b) it ignores that children are often not taken into account in these pools and that children more often than not will carry the religious beliefs of their parents into adulthood.
Congrats for being the algorithm winner, and also, the Yamaguchi-gumi is currently still in-fighting, though they seem to be trying to reconcile and rebuild. Hopefully, the current yakuza groups try to use what remains of their resources to become legit organizations and companies, and leave behind their dark origins. The underground world will always exist, but organizations like the Yakuza makes them stronger and more dangerous with their cohesion and collective power.
Yakuza players: true true but where's the karaoke and disco dancing
Don't forget me either
They just don't know about Friday night and all the real estate work that we did to Enhance japan
Never heard of disco
Or bowling.
Yakuza are also very talented singers, dancers, toy car racers, bowlers, arcade game players, etc
Yeah, they sometimes have karaoke nights and sing their hearts out
especially kiryu
Baka Mitai 🎶🎶
WOO BRRAKING THE LAAAAAW
@@AziizNamantino BREAKING THE WOOOOORLD
This guy is cooperating with Yakuza
I think he is, Yakuza is not out
Ong
you know to much...
@@CristianSalles1 he didn’t say they were out he say they were on their way out. Maybe a bit hyperbolic but they’re under massive pressure considering what they used to get away with.
But yeah they’re still super powerful. I don’t imagine they’re gonna go anywhere in our lifetime.
Yes
I thought yakuza was just the silly game with the karaoke
Dame dane
Turns out japanese liked that game series way too much
I'm just imagining a giant building with Yakuza Evil Incorporated on it.
Had me dead lmao
Yes, Millennium Tower.
@@DoctorOfTheLazania Man of Culture
*Doofenschmirtz
this made me think of Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. 😭
True story time: I was working on a project for the Navy back in 07. One night I went out to this club with a coworker of mine who had been in Japan a while. It was the type of club where you sing karaoke and hang out with some girls who work there.
Anyway, we’d been singing all night and ready to call it quits when the bar tender gave us a couple free drinks. He said to my friend that “the guy at the table wanted to hear us sing September by Earth Wind and Fire” since it was one of his favourite songs. Being tired I said no but my friend realised that this guy was Yakuza and said “We’d better sing our asses off.”
We did a good job because he bought us drinks for the next couple hours and even had a driver bring us back to the hotel we were staying at when the club closed.
That's scary af
That's both wholesome and scary at the same time.
Blud legit said "Hahaha, now sing or else 🔫🔫🔫"
"Yakuza didn't actually make Japan safer, they just made it seem safer."
Every VPN provider in a nutshell
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@@AA-ok5jz Whereas in Japan they torture people until they confess.
@@AA-ok5jz Are you familiar with the term whataboutism?
It's where any criticism of the thing you like (for example, "Japan is cozy with the Yakuza") is met by a non sequitur attack on the 'other side' (Did you know that in the west..."), despite the person who made the initial criticism NEVER having made the point you're trying to refute.
Person A: "I think that X is bad"
Person B: "Yeah, well, Y is bad!!!"
You're person B.
@@NathanTAK You are person B aswell.
@@AA-ok5jz you got the west and america mixed up
The real reason the Yakuza are being shooed out of society is because Kazuma Kiryu is now cleaning up the streets.
Nice reference
True
Kiryu when he has to help the tojo clan for the 753rd fucking time:
Kiryu chaaan!
If video games have taught me anything, Yakuza basically help people out with wierd side-adventures, particpating in the local nightlife, with activity such as singing Karaoke and playing darts. Yakuza also take on normal jobs such as Taxi driving, running an Orphanage, working in construction, managing realestate and clubs, fishing, and running a baseball team. Yakuza constantly get attacked on the street by people looking for a fight, and have dramatic confrontations where they somehow can rip off their jacket, shirt and tie, all in one motion, before punching each other.
I love the games to 😂
You forgot beating up zombies while Michael Jackson moonwalks down the street...
@@jinhunterslay1638 * Miracle Johnson
pretty much remove the last bit about being attacked randomly and add in extortion, racketeering, and distillery management and you got everything real yakuza have done
Don't forget the smooth, deep voice that could make any man gay
The irony is that the police also hire yakuza to go after criminals who hide from the police, which means that the Yakuza basically acts as literal Batman
I thought Gothams PD hunts Batman for hunting their criminals
Kijura - there are some cases where they actually did fight because of it but mostly it ran rather smoothly
Brownskikuca Garlic Bread to avoid public backlash yes
That’s the reason why the kkk isn’t as public as in the 60’s because the mafia hated them
You don't know anything about batman
One failed heart surgery on a Yakuza boss and the whole thing falls apart.
Can you please reply I see this joke everywhere, but I don’t get it at all?
Kevin Pan it’s an intellectual humor
It’s also from the office
In Japan, heart surgeron number 1...
@@nupups4039 you just brought back so many memories
It was hard to prosecute the Yakuza because they needed to explain the entire plots of Y0 through Y7 to a jury.
well actually i played the games and they do funny stuff like karaoke and driving taxis they cant be that bad
DAME DANEEEEE
Yea bro can agree
@@ihtasham9237 lol
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SUAONI I LOVE YOU!
always found it odd how people liked to defend organized crime by saying "but they keep petty crime down!" like, how do you think they make their money? gardening?
Yeah, murderers and pickpockets are bad, but is having them taken care of by a bunch of sociopaths who will gut your child and cook him in a soup to force feed you with for owing them money somehow better?
>gardening?
yes, ofc. Pablo Escobar was a famous gardener.
@@trol3262 Tbh, he never ''gardened'' himself.
Exactly. You have to keep in mind that mafias are involved in human and child trafficing, p3d0phile rings, making people addicted to hard drgs etc.
@@realglutenfree Yup, yup and yup again. And their ways of dealing with people who owe them or people who they extort is just....worse than any petty criminal's ways.
I got "jacuzzi" and "yakuza" mixed up.
Now I'm in hot water with the japanese mafia...
Shut up and take my like
Devin Guajardo /r/angryupvote
Not funny. Didn't laugh.
@@GreekShinobi223 Not Constructive. Didn't ask.
I will now prepare a diamond-clad coffin for you.
That Kiryu chap is a jam up guy though. Cleans the streets, play with the children, even helps the police regularly. Truly a model citizen.
Weeb
@@TwistedLullabies I mean Yakuza games are more gamer culture than weeb material
My man even made an orphanage
@@TwistedLullabies aren't u one urself?
“That’s why gangsters don’t just hand out business cards”
Surprisingly in London that’s EXACTLY what plugs do. And it isn’t just a number on a scrap of paper, some of those guys got some real nice ones
Hey man! Graphic designers need their coin too! Drug dealers, murderers, gangsters...etc.. as long as they have their money in order, creating a logo, business card, brand, hats, mugs etc... is no problem.
(This was sarcasm, had to put it in parenthesis in case anyone is autistic and struggles with understanding sarcasm most of the time as I do.)
Oh God, it even has a watermark
@@henriquesoares7893 let's see paul allen's yakuza business card
and now there's a popular game series about the yakuza, starring everyone's favorite hero kiryu kazuma
And Goro Majima
Am I missing something?
Men name agreed I want to know this game might be good
and favorite yakuza vtuber, kiryu coco
@@babatunde8903 they are amazing. Its like playing a fever dream with a compelling narrative.
Rose are red
Violets are blue
CGP Grey isn't posting
So this guy will have to do
I don't know, this guys style is just way too close to grey for me.
He obviously won't be as good as the original creator at it, I feel like he should really try to find his own thing. This honestly feels like it's crossed the border to theft.
CGP Grey has said himself that starting out by just imitating a creator you like and finding your own style from there is a perfectly fine way to do things.
Abdul jamal shariq lequif rahman the beeg deek the 3rd
This comment is autistic
Leafeon who tfs cgp grey
Leafeon j
comparing a criminal organization with insurance companies may be the best thing I've ever witnessed
you must not be familiar with the TV/movie trope of criminals running insurance businesses...
it must be nice to have been born yesterday.
Yakuza is a video game series about being a sharp suited man with a brick for a face in an 80’s disco suit suplexing another man in an 80’s disco suit into a mailbox.
lmao this description belongs on that subreddit about reviews so bad there good this is like comedy gold i love you
Hahaha, so true!
Search up “zero punctuation” that’s where he got the quote from, still funny though
Funny, i read that in Yahtzee’s voice before I actually knew it’s his quote XD
'80s
Japanese history is the only history I know that consistantly sounds like fiction
Let's be honest all the orient has some wacky moments.
Wait until you hear about Brazilian history (even today we sometimes doubt some news because they sound too fictional)
Actually a lot of history can be downright insane with what happens
Wait till u hear Southeast Asia history
Let's be real, Modern weaponry made war even less interesting.
Imagine if WW2 was fought with Knights and Samurais or any traditional warriors.
"Yakuza didn't actually make Japan safer, they just made seem safer" well, that's a good business model actually. I can think of a lot of services sold that do just that. One of the famous examples is the gated communities in USA.
A famous example is also the whole Usa
Well in that case seeming safer to anyone looking for a place to rob makes yourself safer because they’d rather not go through the trouble of hijacking the gate when they could find a place where they could just walk in, right?
another good example is the nsa
@@umno9830 The fact is that gated communities in USA is that the burglary rate is exactly the same as the surrounding areas. And the aggregate crime rate is also the same. You can guess the reason, but in the end the service they are selling is the perception of safety and many other services also sell that perception.
Lmao
I didn't expect to be recommended an old video like that, but it's missing some stuff:
-Yakuza are on their way out, but mainly due to a staffing issue more than anything else. Young people are way less likely to become Yakuza than people who went through the lost decades or post-war Japan.
-There are still Yakuza in plenty of places. There are entire businesses managed by Yakuza, including a lot you really don't want to enter (the bill is going to be salty and you won't have much of a warning about the 'complimentary services' piling up).
-Honor isn't just a front. There are rules, and rule breakers get their fingers cut (and potentially more in extreme cases). All in all, it's pretty reflective of Japanese society, in a way. Apparently though, there are more rulebreakers who don't really get punished nowadays.
I guess cutting too many fingers would get them bad PR, not so fun when you're short on staff.
@@SheoGotSomeCheese In a way, yes, though it's not the only thing. There are a lot of newer Yakuza organizations or entire branches of existing organizations that are looser on rules. Profitable things like selling drugs (which is supposed to be taboo) are tempting to younger members, and with the democratization of pen-shaped pistols, it's become harder to stay in control. It's become easier for newcomers to gain and hold influence.
So everybody got recommended this at the exact same time
This algorithm is bonkers
Wtf
We've been sent here!
yeah.
Mine did
For those of you wondering:
The algorithem is working weird, yes, but this comment section is sorted by most recent on default. That's why all the comments you're seeing are from minutes or even seconds ago. If you go on "sort by" and click on "top comments", it'll switch to the format you're used to.
Edit: These likes are the most I think I've ever gotten, thank you.
Yes that too, but the views are pretty much exploding right now
Yip
@@realglutenfree True
I think it's sad 127 likes are the most you've ever gotten :(
@@ZoofyZoof lmao
That’s just how the Yakuza works
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Goddammit
Thats how yakuza works.*
@Mia Twins T-GAY!
KOREGA KING CRIMSON NO NOURYOKU
@@ikiliousdasylouiyasbdetyw9124 Don't think he was talking about Jojo mate.
Why does this appear in everyone's recommended?
hacks
Yakuza paid for you to see it
I live in Japan and there’s still big, don’t let the media fool you. They’ve just learned to keep their circles tighter and they have family in law enforcement. They’re actually really chill people you can drink a beer with, just don’t cross them or mess with their business lol
So... The nation has just surrendered to criminals? That's awful.
@@bitterlemonboy They actually donate a lot of money to humanitarian efforts, like natural disasters. Granted, they probably got the money from ripping people off but that’s no different than any other business lol
@@bitterlemonboy they not actually that bad, they not get Yakuza even they are not hiding because there is no prove that they are "that evil" and like this Samuel MontyPython said .. they still a big group
@@samuelmontypython8381 That’s some bullshit logic, you can’t just enable criminal organizations like that. That’s not how regular businesses work.
They’re literally stealing from and killing whoever they want, stop this nonsensical glorification.
YakTubza:
_”We’ve been trying to reach you all today about your algorithm’s expired warranty…”_
Sooooo since we all got recommended this at the same time, I guess Yakuza are trying to recruit through RUclips now?
ahahaahahahaha
everyone's been saying they clicked and idk what they mean also how could they tell
As a japanese, they were romanticised in the 90s when I was a child, but now it sounds like a serious bad thing.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket could be, territorial gun fights are much more common among them now.
@@12kenbutsuri Weirdly I had heard maybe the opposite, that they were clamping down on yakuza, like they can't open bank accounts and stuff so they can't pay for their kids school unless in cash which then gets the kid labelled and ostricised? I could be wrong on a lot of this that's why I'm asking
@@shortbreadhead I think it depended on the town. In the deep country side, this sounds like something that could have happened.
Biker gang/mafia moment:
About the origin of the name "yakuza": I'm aware that it doesn't work with "8-9-3" when you try it with the usual Sino-Japanese reading, so let me explain: "ya" for "eight" is the native Japanese reading, "ku" is another form of "kyuu", and "za" is a shortened and modified form of "san". So, if you wondered, there you go.
八つ - [ya]ttsu
九時 - [ku]ji
三 is only read as "sa" in names (nanori), but I think it's not hard to believe they simply dropped the n because "yakuza" sounds better than "yakuzan".
Sidenote: Japanese numbers are hard. This doesn't even scratch the surface. (Counter words.... ugh)
as a Chinese person I could say its fairly easy for me to understand Japanese numbers! I just hope that our cultures could coexist in the future and move on from past conflicts. :(
Well, my main issue is pronunciation. I can infer that the character after the number is a counter, but how do you say it? What it counts is generally also inferrable, but that is another question.
Do you have counters like that in Chinese, too?
I kind of doubt being Chinese helps much with the pronunciation.
九 - kyuu
九人 - kyuunin
九時 - kuji
九つ - kokonotsu
And even if you know the counter word, it might be pronounced differently depending on which number it actually is:
九本 - kyuuhon
三本 - sanbon
一本 - ippon
i did wonder. thanks.
I thought it was called Yakuza because it was called the ultimate path in Japanese
I like how the Yakuza is just basically the mafia's nicer cousin
Nicer?
It is a mafia
Noo, they *seem* like nicer cousin
Dont be fooled they, still have have gunfights that get innocents killed.
And they can make Anime!
*Yakuza:* We do crime, respectfully
*Police:* Understandable, have a nice day
RUclips: algorithmic minds have chosen this
I completed the all the Yakuza games this year, and kinda felt sad that the yakuza culture was coming to an end. Then I remembered how dangerous thy actually are. Well, not everyone is Kiryu or Ichiban or "insert good natured yakuza character from any fiction".
Yeah there were probably more kuzes, awanos, and nishikis (kiwami nishki) than kiryus, ichibans, or majimas
@@DKSanX Kuze is probably the most yakuza yakuza in the Yakuza games
Considering 99% of yakuza Kiryu and Kasuga encounter want them dead, yeah even in the games they're not portrayed very positively
I've actually had American weebs try to convince me that Japan was such a utopia that even Yakuza was honorable and respectful. Where do these people get off?
Wait until they learn about the Japanese justice system
@@24YOA XD
@@24YOA 99% *Conviction intensifes*
@@انقذواالارانب you can't even bring medicine
A utopia with a declining birth rate
I wouldnt be surprised if, within the next few years, the Yakuza transitioned into completely legitimate businesses and charities
"Legitimate Charity" ... that's what they all say 😂
o x i said within the next few years too but okay
They "are".
@@isnitjustkit No I believe you. But you must remember that the rich donate lots of money, making them exempt from taxes that they would've lost money on. Donating this illegal cash, allows them to launder their money safely while paying their taxes too, keeping the tax man off their ass from any under the table operations they have ongoing. Art works this way too, that's why you see quite simple, meaningless things being classified as "abstract" and going for millions from private art dealers and just exhanching hands to pay eachothers donations and launder money lol. Not disagreeing with you, but Yakuza know how to make bread
Yakuza can transition much to financial crimes and supporting or blackmailing corrupt politicians and businessmen
Actually most organised mafia groups would probably have that as their new business mo and push traditional supply and demand of drugs or contrabands to local gangs and corrupt officials
The Yakuza is the younger brother that gets away with anything and gets you in trouble all the time
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What foreingers thought of Yakuza before: wow is that something like the Mafia?!?
What they think now: Dame da ne, Dame yo, Dame na no yo
I still dont get the joke properly.
Edit: thanks I understand now.
@@sinedddmk8996 baka mitai meme
Sined the Gamer Yakuza series, or Ryu Ga Gotoku in Japan
@@sinedddmk8996 play the yakuza series
It’s true that yakuza don’t hide, but they keep their distance from strong citizens they bump into on a daily basis. Ask my friend Kazuma Kiryu, a respected citizens in kamurocho
oh dude i've heard of him
have you heard of my lawyer takayuki yagami?
he does detective work and bumps into a few yakuzas every now and again ._.)
He never killed anyone just shot some people and beat some people till thier heart stopped it's not killing
Neutral evil
Lawful Evil *
Neutrally lawfully evil
lawfully evilly neutral
No guys Chaotic Neutral en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
true neutral
The yakuza were only defeated by laws that made their tattoos and logos criminal offenses. They were more skilled at hiding dirt than any other organized crime groups in history
But Yakuza does epic shirtless fights while showing off their cool tattoos, can you say the same about regular criminals?
So thats how Majima gets away carrying a metal bat, a knife and like 3 more weapons on the street
The only good thing to come out of Yakuza was some kid getting inspired to make a game about it, and that game being one of the best damn games of all time.
Name of game?
@@darkcomet1607 dark souls
@@darkcomet1607 I think you're probably joking but just in case the game is literally called Yakuza.
@@ertrider ok thanks
@@ertrider wasn't joking btw, just wanted to confirm as there might be alot of games out there with Yakuzas in it
It's cool thinking of Japanese people understanding their biggest gang as "the 893"
If American crime syndicates worked like this, we'd have a group called the Snake Eyes.
@@OptimusPhillipthat'd be so cool
@@OptimusPhillip That would actually be sick
Getting rid of yakuza means getting rid of Kiryu and Majima, and that's not good.
Yeah and they're good Yakuza, they've never killed anyone
@@legacymse7095 Majima would
Hey this name looks familiar
There is no good yakuza member.
Kiryu is ex-yakuza dummy!
holy crap why is the algorithm shitty? Everyone clicked on this at THIS MOMENT
can confirm
Ikr
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Lmao
In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No english, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
Big brain time
I wish that I could belive you.
That was hilarious
Love that show
Classic
How did this get recommended to all of us at the same time?
Yakuza
It’s also hard to bust them because many have legitimate business as fronts and do legitimate business deals. They’re considered “semi-legal” companies tightrope walking the line.
Real reason: they’re level 35 bosses.
And it was at this moment that this 4 year video blew up faster than the Yakuza’s enemies.
At least it's a good video.
Organized Crime Gang ❎️
Organized Business Company ✅️
why be yakuza when you can run an orphanage or be a taxi driver?
Be a professional dancer/singer
perhaps a real estate agent maybe? idk just a suggestion
Maybe even an professional toy car racer?
Or Run into an orphanage with a taxi
or become a profesional bodyguard for hire?
I was surprised you didn't mention about the volunteer activity of Yakuza. Even though they are criminal groups, they often do volunteerings when disasters happen. Ex. after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, Yakuzas send relief supplies such as milk powder, diapers, and sanitary napkins. From the title, I thought you say about these kind of things lol
Can’t extort money from local businesses if there are no local businesses
@Hammie Li Or even send Yakuza to do volunteer lol
They also sent people who owed them money and couldn't pay to clean up the Fukishima nuclear reactor.
They only volunteer so they have good PR. Literally the only reason
@@mountainmangames3613 yh dont forget about human trafficking, and the exploitation of people
so the answer is corruption
You forgot one more important aspect: The Yakuza keep out chinese gangs, who care about Japan a lot less.
That rhetoric is nonsense and plenty of modern Japanese anime mock that openly i.e My Hero Acedemia
@@nonamepasserbya6658
Oh, what episode?
@@nonamepasserbya6658 I s m e l l w e e b s
@@CandleWisp The entire 1st half of season 4, Shie Hassaikai arc
Ah japan, where looking safe is more important than actually being safe
I mean that's just most of the modern world, not really Japan. Japan is just an accelerated view of what most modern countries will become with time, really. That's my opinion anyway.
@@kevinwalsh2922 maybe so, but Japan is so concern with the idea of saving face that they bury anything that they won't solve. Homeless people for example, Japan doesn't even count their homeless people. They don't provide anything like shelter or food. Another example is how the justice system works. It's full of people who don't want to lose face. If you're brought to court, the chance of you winning is next to zero, whether or not you're guilty. I don't know man, stuff like that is the reason i think Japan is so fake
Like literally every country ever????????????? The only thing is that Japan is actually safe compared to 95% of the rest of the world
@@kevinwalsh2922 I don't think so. Japan be a pretty unique place, I don't think the rest of the world will ever be quite like it.
@@dantederi5062 we don't provide shelter either, and our legislators often take away homeless people's existing shelter because "it looks bad". That's saving face much more than the Japanese are
"There must be something that can be done"
Yes, Italy got round this problem of people being able to openly associate with the mafia and never go to jail just because they could not be convicted of a specific crime by simply making Mafia association a crime in itself.
What is the definition of being associated with the mafia in Italian law
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Get to work recap we need content >:(
truth
Not original
hi recap
Amen
dont forget, they also sing good karaoke
If they don't need to hide... why is there a yakuza with a bizarre snake skin jacket and eyepatch hiding until he sees me whenever I'm in public.
"KIRYUUU-CHAAN"
Because it's fun to watch people sometimes
@annie's big day wot
RUclips decided to recommend this to everybody in the last 24 hours
COMMENTED ONE SECOND AGO
Not the only one bro
They don’t. I mean The Mad Dog of Shimano runs a cabaret club. The Dragon of Dojima has a daughter who is an idol.
The name has numbers in it? First gamer tag.
I can only imagine what this guys RUclips Analytics are looking like right now.
Hundreds if not thousands of new comments flying in on a 4 year old video. The YT algorithms weird but you love to see it
There is a live chat appearently, but I cannot see it, it's all just new comments
Make a vid about why passione don’t need to hide
Excuse me but was that a *JOJO REFERENCE?*
Its not a reference if that's what they're talking about
Ciao
I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream... To become a gang star!
Artikz 504 **P R I M O M A F I O S O**
POV: RUclips started recommending everybody a 4 year old incredibly interesting video
Heavily reminds me of the system in Terry Pratchett's discworld novels where in the city Ankh-Morpork there were (among "normal" ones) a thieves' guild and an assassins' guild. To legally steal or murder you had to have a license from one of those guilds, otherwise they'd murder you, skin you and tie you to a tree, and only in that order if you're very lucky. Along with that there were rules and subscription models for the murderer and thief trades (for example you could pay a certain sum a week to the thieves' guild to never be robbed, and for every single person there was a specific price that needed to be paid to have them killed, no assassin would just murder someone without getting paid for it). Add to that a democratic leader (he's the citizen, he has the vote) and you have a functional, although weird, city-state.
Love the bit where thieves had to give receipts back to the thieved.
Terry Pratchett was amazing
I live in Japan and I have never thought of the yakuza as dangerous.
They generally run brothels and sometimes kill each other, but they don't get involved with ordinary people.
AHOY SPONGEBOY ME BOB
I HAVE BEEN TARGETED BY THE JAPANESE YAKUZA AND WILL BE SILENCED
ARGAHAGAGAAGGAGAGA
Wtf hahaha
CHAWDER - GIVE THAT MAN A *business card*
That's rad
The reason they don't have to hide is because the cops are too scared of pissing off Kiryu.
My boy Kiryu put in work to dismantle the Yakuza so he could have a break for once
In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No english, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
This story, even though fake, always makes me sad, because he just abandoned his old woman on the way and has no feelings towards her.
I get that one
Haha, first thing that went into my mind. Gotta love the office
The Office
Aye
0:22 I mean, insurance companies aren't that different from the Yakuza...
Bro...
How can you say something so controversial yet so brave?
I mean gangs do provide protection
I think the Yakuza paid for this to be on everyones recommendations
Haha
Wouldn’t doubt it
Fun fact: Bob the Builder has five fingers instead of four in Japan. Local authorities decided to give him the extra digit so Japanese children would not think he was a member of the Yakuza. (I believe the footage was unaltered though, just main marketing image)
On Monday, November 8’th at 9:00 est, like 3 million random people learned that yakuza meant 8, 9, 3. And that’s pretty cool.
Pretty sure those 3 million people were told a myth.
Yakuza did not appear until after ww2. They grew powerful on the surplus weapons and poverty after the war.
@@olesams It's amazing how you can be so confident when you're dead wrong
"Peacefully" convinced them that they were wrong.
how old are you? it's Yakuza, you can't even spell it right after edit your comment. And Japanese are retards? that's the most stupid statement i've ever heard
minh hoang tho jew-kuza
Read this just as it was said
Provocateur btw hello my slovak brat
minh hoang tho are you new to the Internet?
"You seem to be confusing peace with quiet."
"... As if they were selling insurance."
Kiryu: "Uh... right, because that would be silly. 😅"
Now all we need is Mexican cartel explained and the triforce of organized crime will be comeplete
Outlaw7263
Self explanatory group of gangs who make money by selling drugs at fixed prices
Abba Okoro I'd rather have him tell it
Outlaw7263 Bikers?
Bad Incorporated welll that depends, regular bikers or outlaw biker gangs? Cuz most are just social clubs for people who like bikes.
Outlaw7263 Hell's Angels
"You can't have police knock down unarmed protestors. That would look really bad."
USA: "Hold my beer"
Virgin Mafia vs Chad Yakuza
This was made 4 yrs ago and I'm seeing a lot of comments made minutes ago
Yes
This is correct
I once got the words "Yakuza" and "Jacuzzi" mixed up while I was speaking at a cultural exchange event in Kyoto. After that I was in hot water with the Japanese mafia.
stolen
totally didn't see this a few comments up
The joke is at least 20 years old because that’s when I first heard it, so no I didn’t steal it from another comment. Sorry I didn’t check to see if it was already posted but not everyone sees the same top comments.
Did everyone suddenly get this in their recommendations?
Mmhmm
Yes
Yes
on the 13th hour of 11/11/21 we have gathered
Somewhere there is a yakuza laughing at this saying "on our way out, ha, that's what we want them to think."
Thats not true...Christianity and Islam are both growing
Yakuza started leaving the scene with the bubble economy collapsing. In short, the recession hit them too. They really are leaving.
That's a bit of a wrong statistic to show that these things are shrinking. % population doesn't mean anything because a) a smaller percentage of a growing world doesn't mean much when overall numerical growth is still increasing and b) it ignores that children are often not taken into account in these pools and that children more often than not will carry the religious beliefs of their parents into adulthood.
+Siliuse
Actually, that's the problem with raw numbers vs percentage. If you only use one to form your conclusion, you're cherry picking the data.
Shawn W that is interesting. May I ask where did you get this number ?
"you cant strike peacefull protester"
French police : "hold my beer"
You meant hold my champagne
@cesarcesar9040 you meant hold my baguette
@@SpoilerAlert__ you meant hold my croassaint
I mean they are like 2 feet away from starting chop off dudes' heads
French striker : "Then hold mine too"
So RUclips wanna explain why you recommending me such video when I'm about to go to bed?
I don’t know either man I’m in the same situation but alas here we are
Hichigo Shirosaki it’s a money thing you wouldn’t understand
kazama kiryu took down the whole dojima family and became the fourth chairman of the tojo clan
no u
wtf spoilers
@@d9zirable nah it’s a known fact
This video has 2.8K dislikes, but the Tojo Clan has nearly 30 thousand members, so I wonder which family disliked this video.
The arakawa family disliked it since they’re with the omi alliance
Not the Majima family
I forget the name of that weird tojo offshoot from 3
@@skyefox5796 I just Googled it. Is it the Tamashiro Family?
@@sid98geek I think so?
Congrats for being the algorithm winner, and also, the Yamaguchi-gumi is currently still in-fighting, though they seem to be trying to reconcile and rebuild.
Hopefully, the current yakuza groups try to use what remains of their resources to become legit organizations and companies, and leave behind their dark origins. The underground world will always exist, but organizations like the Yakuza makes them stronger and more dangerous with their cohesion and collective power.
"You can't really have the police beat down unarmed protesters without looking _really_ bad"
**Laughs in American**
That didnt age so well
*Cries in American*
"unarmed"
@@nicolasbalderrama3910 it was made a day before you posted. Did something new happened over there yesterday?
"protesters"
Me: Wacht a gameplay of Yakuza like a dragon.
RUclips: I see you are interested in all the videos of yakuza history.
They are correct
The algorithm has reunited us once again, my brothers. Let us rejoice
Hi bro lol
Indeed.
Amen
Wondering why you're at a random video from 4 years ago? So are all of us.
Honestly
im confused aswell