/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Are you aware that the vast majority of Yakuza members aren't really Japanese? Ethnic Koreans and Chinese

>>11857186
are you a yakuza

>wanting to join some shitty Yakuza with painted asian clowns

Sonny, pls.

>>11857198
No but I don't think you know what that word really means. I spend a lot of time in Kabukicho

>>11857213
I would join the mafia if they had any real power nowadays. I'm even the right ethnicity.

Anyone knows any good yakuza documentaries?

And is yakuza still relevant in Japan anymore?

>>11857214
thats pretty gangster dude

>>11857186
cool will they let a whitey in then?

>>11857355
> Anyone knows any good yakuza documentaries?
I haven't seen any worthwhile.
> And is yakuza still relevant in Japan anymore?
Yes, but since '80 their influence is dwindling a lot.

>>11857214
tell me sum stories or what did you see in Kabukicho. Violence?

Ew why are they all naked and shit?

How accurate is Tokyo Vice, if you've read it?

>>11857181
- Yakuza are made up of 3 families
- Yamaguchi-gumi
- Sumiyoshi-kai
- Inagawa-kai
- The Yakuza name comes from the unluckiest cards in an ancient Chinese card game.
- They have traditional tattoos
- They use a hierarchical system
- They control most of Japan's red light districts

>>11857902
They also control the Idol industry

As a full member? Probably have to start your own gang. Remember you need to find a lawyer to be your "consigliere" or whatever. I guess this is where most people fuck it up.

>>11857941
So they are specialists in dealing with bitches?

Are you Korean or something? If it wasn't for the Yakuza there would be basically no crime in Japan.

チョン死ね

I'm a yakuza, ask me anything.

>>11857996
>there would be basically no crime in Japan.
Because they don't report crime LMAO

>>11857997
Explain the tattoos. Does every member just get full body tattoos? Are some tattoos reserved for higher ranking members? etc.

>>11857996
I'm pretty sure the Yakuza serve a vital role in Japan, otherwise they wouldn't be so seemingly invincible. I think every crime organisation plays a vital role in the functioning of every country, I just don't see what that role is or if it's even necessary.

when a japanese talks about a bill how much money exactly is it?

You don't ever get to choose the thug life. The thug life chooses you!

>studying criminology
>tfw three years until I get to study gangs
damn

>>11857181
Me on the right

>>11858034
shit, why did you have to point it out

the fuck is that...?

>>11858039
It's a magazine, tard.

>>11857262
You should join the mafia and bring it back to it's good ol' days!

-Be big and fit. Yakuza wont accept a gaijin who doesnt have any skills so if you arent built and know how to fight or look tough then you shouldnt bother, as most gaijin who join yakuza are put into "tough guy jobs" that require you to scare the shit out of people.

-know japanese. And i mean REALLY KNOW IT. Yakuza tend to use a lot of slang and they speak pretty fast which would be hard for a gaijin who isnt good at it. Not only that but you have to have a grasp on the subtlety of the language so you can tell what anyone is saying, even when their face is beaten in and its hard to heard them.

-Show complete respect. Being a low level guy means youre shit. Being a low level gaijin puts you at an even lower esteem. Which means you will get your efforts over looked, and treated pretty poorly unless you are very respectful and kind to your brothers or father. Dont be an ass kisser though.

-Be prepared to not move up. Yakuza have ties to right wing groups, ones which may not like gaijin and wont accept a gaijin into higher ranks, which means the most you'd become is a bouncer at a club or security at a soapland. Dont expect to become a honcho.

-You might be set up. They may ask you to commit a crime that requires a desposable man who will get arrested. They might pick the gaijin and if you arent put in jail, you'll be deported. This might happen when you work with drugs.

Stay safe.

Me on the left

le edgy underworld XD

天元突破 kek

>>11857181


Fun fact, many people wiith full body tattoos develop jaundice because tats disrupt the skins ability to excrete metabolites like ammonia and other toxins through sweat

Fuck those guys, let's form our own gang!

Why is organized crime always racial?

>>11858427
High-level criminals tend to be intelligent, and at the same time to interact with a lot of minorities.

>>11858427
Its one of the very few things people can use to identify eachother at a glance.

Race will always identify someone at a glance, barring huge mutations/defects. At least untill hundreds of thousands of years later when everybody is so racemixed we're all basically identical greys.

>>11857181

That was back when yakuza were grizzled old wwii vets and true men

yakuza these days are just punk foreigners and senile old codgers trying to hold on to their power

>>11857429
If you seem fitting, but it's more like if you got the contacts.

>>11857186
Majority is actually burakumin, but yeah also lots of Koreans and Chinese.

>>11858024
A reason why there's not as much crime in Japan is because the Yakuza is controlling so much.

>>11858454

>If you seem fitting
>gaijin

Why do all you faggots sounds like you know what you're talking about, when you know nothing?

Even japanese-corean get shit on. You think they would ever let some western faggot in?

>>11858023
Not the guy, but as far as I remember from what I have been told, are tattoos more or less a way of saying that people shouldn't mess with them, much like many poisonous creatures are very beautiful colours, to warn other creatures.

>>11858268
has there never been a gaijin thats moved up? not OP, but just curious

>>11858458
gaijin is slang for foreigner in japanese, you fucking moron. its common knowledge, not yakuza leet speak.

>>11858458
see >>11858268

>>11858458
gooks blend in better than a nigger or whiteboy

police = yakuza

I know all about yakuza, I played video game about them, also watched movies.

Let me tell you all about them

>>11857186
>>11857996
>>11858027
Why are Koreans so badass?

>>11858513
korea basically owns japan

But the main businesses of the yakuza are

1. banking/real estate/insurance fraud, racket
2. human trafficking / CP/snuff
3. regular porn
4. pachikoshit
5. legit businesses

Why would you want to do that ? It's boring, stupid, dangerous and you're guaranteed to go to hell, Shiki-sama wont even look at you.

Go be a criminal in a country with a real police like the US, you coward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i6zXkS1CNo

>>11858561
The yakuza run regular porn?

>>11858561
>2. human trafficking / CP/snuff

No no

It's Japan not Eastern Europe.

>>11858617
Not that guy, but human trafficking is pretty popular everywhere.

>>11864337
Bad news, I've heard that the yakuza recently got a fifth guy, so you might be in for some trouble.

>>11858394

I'm down with that. I think I could easily beat up at least 3 Japs without breaking a sweat, probably more, and I know some Japanese so we could probably overthrow the Yakuza

>>11864341

Well the gang will need more strong western men, but I still think it would work. Looking at >>11857181 there's only 2 guys there that might know how to fight and even then I think I could take them both at the same time with a bit of effort

>fucking 4chan weabos
>want to be yakuza and not triads

>>11864382
recommend me a movie about the triad

>>11864396
rush hour 2

>>11864396

triad election

choy yun fat movies

>>11864493
>triad election
Are both election movies good?

>>11864396
Rise of the Triads on MS-DOS

>>11864523

th ist one is better than the 2nd

>>11864552
>>11864382 is the second one, right?

yakuza papers is loosely based on manuscripts from a former yakuza

>>11864520
N-no one responded to this...?

I thought it was f-funny at least...

>>11864559
the 1st imo

>>11864569
No I was asking if that image was from the second movie. I like those types of movies. New World (2013) is one like that.

sonatine is a fun slice of life about wacky yakuzas

Just watched the first Election movie. Can't say I enjoyed it very much. The story was pretty boring, the acting nothing special, the ending made little sense and Chinese is grating on the ears.

Can a yak join the yakuza?

>>11866192
Silly yak thinks it's people.

>>11857181

Step #1:

Get a Fundoshi.

>>11858442
>At least untill hundreds of thousands of years later when everybody is so racemixed we're all basically identical greys.

Well, we've been around for a few hundred thousand years already and that has only brought about more diversity so I think you're wrong.

>>11858458
>japanese-corean
Why do you faggots keep using these american terms in Japan only the japanese are japanese what's so hard to get? these people are just korean simply as that.

>>11866299
globalization faglord.

>>11858427
It's because only racial minorities needed to resort to organized crime to get.

>>11864566
reply

just for u

>>11866996
Todesstrafe für Raseschänder

>>11858458
I heard they use koreans and nigerians because natives are too pussy these days

does anyone else think the recent crackdown on hentai censorship was actually revenge for some yakuza shit? I can't believe it was actually some guy at the ministry of mosaiced dicks suddenly becoming more consciencious.

>>11867036
I thought it was just in anticipation of the olympics.

>>11867147
The olympics are some stupid shit why do people even care?

>>11867178
Women's Gymnastics, mostly.

>>11864520
It was a slightly shitty joke at best.

The Yakuza are both legit and illegal. Their illegal activities include drug dealing (not all Yakuza clans do this), human trafficking (again, not all), prostitution, uncensored porn, extortion and fraud.

They only really exist because the government can use them as a tool to do their dirty work. They keep petty criminals under control and they basically run construction projects and developments. If a company is doing something they don't like, they buy enough shares in the company to gain a seat in the big shareholders meetings and basically use scare tactics on everyone with their presence.

They're surprisingly polite to foreigners, me and two friends had a good night out with some Yakuza guys in 2011. I nearly shit a brick because my friend was quite drunk and he just grabbed a drink off the bar and drank it thinking it was his. Along comes 2 guys in suits looking pissed and I was like "Oh shit, I'm really sorry let me buy you another, he didn't know it was yours" and before I could get any money out the guy in front put his arm around me and said "Ahhhh English drunks!" and started laughing.

The rest of the night was pretty cool, they were leading us to these shady places and each time we went down a side street or an alley I thought "This is it, this is where they kill us". I feel bad when I think about it because they were cool guys, we went to a few snooker places and we were offered drugs everywhere we went. I don't recall pending any money either, Tai (or Tee, his name escapes me but it was something like that) just told the barmen that we were with him and we basically got whatever we wanted.

I have another friend who went the year before and he said he got lost in Osaka and was approached by a heavily tattooed guy who spent nearly an hour with him helping him to get back to his hotel. Whether he was Yakuza or not isn't definite but still very helpful either way.

I wonder...
Monthy dues would be rough, but I've come up with some pretty good ideas for Yakuza to make quick easy money that I know would sell in Japan, so I would give it a shot.

are you in japan

>>11869263
Who?

>>11857355
>>11857470
Similar, but Vice Japan has been making documentaries on the right-wingers in Japan, which usually include Yakuza. The series is called Gokudo (極道).

>>11869314
You

>>11869339
Yeah, they're not what you're looking for I'd guess, but Vice Japan is really great.
They offer subtitles if you don't speak Japanese, too.

>>11869441
Yeah, I actually prefer their documentaries over normal Vice's. Nowadays I think I only watch Fresh Off The Boat off their normal channel, and the rare interesting documentary on something else.

Also, you would be hard-pressed to find any type of documentary on Yakuza nowadays. They explain it in the 2nd of the series, that any type of interaction with active members gets you in trouble with the law. Still, they show quite a few interesting sides of the Yakuza itself during the documentary. Only the first one is really about the right-wingers.

Do any yakuza enjoy 2hu or lolis or magical girl anime?

>>11869452
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Although I must post to agree, Fresh Off the Boat is incredible.

I'm disappointed that these laws restrict things like documentaries, although I guess like the director said, there's ex-yakuza available, still though, unfortunate.

>>11857181 >>11857186 etc.
"Take the knot." (If you know what I mean.)

>>11867349
I wish I could travel around Japan with you.

>>11867349
>uncensored porn
THE HORROR!!

>>11870682
Its weird, but Yakuza dealings are part of why Uncensored porn is still illegal in Japan. Yakuza profit from its illegal sale, much like dealers in the US profit from marijuana.

>>11870691
so it's Yakuza's fault we can't have uncensored hentai?

if so brb, forming secret underground counter alliance, aka SUCA.

Trust me anon, you'll be hearing all about SUCA raids on Yakuza in the coming years.

>>11870702
I suppose so. Yakuza have a prohibition like profiteering scheme on uncensored porn, and also have right wing ties into government. You can do the math here.

Down with the Yakuza! For porn!

>>11870709
>Yakuza have a prohibition like profiteering scheme on uncensored porn
Don't people like know the internet exists where you can get more uncensored porn than you can fap to in 10 lifetimes?

>>11870780
Not if you're the typical asian xenophobe and don't want to see white piggu

>>11869413
Not Yet.

Russian mafia > triads > yakuza > mexican cartels > italians > street gangs (aka morons)

>>11872029
>Russian mafia
>above anything
top kek

>>11872035
I hope you're trolling. Post-ussr capitalism was the perfect environment for their exponential growth. At one time they controlled 70% of russia's entire economy, not to mention the entire global arms trade.

>>11872035
Who are you quoting?

>>11869456
pls respond

>>11872095
probably

>>11872029
What do triads do these days except for gambling?

>>11872184
One would think human trafficking...

>>11864396
Shinjuku Incident about the rise and fall of a Chinese triad in Japan.

>>11857186
I like how these things work. You read about yakuza gangs having a disproportionate amount of foreign-descended members compared to other 'industries' and then you conclude it's "the vast majority".
What I'm saying is you're full of shit.

Step #2:

Get a Fundoshi.

>>11872202
What is step #3?

its hrd to tye without my inkie fingers

>>11858601
Probably uncensored stuff, considering it's illegal.

>>11874038
They are only supposed to cut off a digit from your pinky finger, not the whole thing.

>>11874739
haha what the fuck how do you cut a number

>>11874747
I don't know if that's the right term, but it's basically the first fingerbone.

>>11874038
>>11874819
Wait, is cutting off a finger a Yakuza thing? It would explain a character from a game I used to play.

>>11874830
Yeah, it's something people associate with Japan.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/7095645/chris_farley_japanese_game_show/

>>11874858
rip saturday night live

>>11872029
jews are more potent than any of those

>>11870636
y-you too

>>11875796
This man knows his shit

>>11864396
Infernal Affairs its what The Departed was based on. If you haven't watch the latter fucking watch it NOW.

>>11874830
Apparently it's something a Yakuza does to make up for a big mistake. If I remember correctly it comes from feudal japan that without your pinkie you can no longer properly wield a sword, thus making you dependant on your lord.

>>11858569
Heh, the japanese police are so polite.

>>11874830
>Wait, is cutting off a finger a Yakuza thing?

Samurai are supposed to grip their swords tightly with the middle, ring, and pinkie fingers and loosely with the thumb and index finger. By having the ends of their middle, ring, or pinkie fingers cut off a swordsman loses his grip and can no longer fight properly.

The Yakuza kept the finger cutting thing for symbolic reasons.

>>11869441
>Vice Japan is really great

No, it's garbage. Get out, you fucking shill.

>>11867349
Osakans are the salt of the earth and generally awesome people. I'm glad to see that it extends to their yakuza too, if that's who that guy was.

>>11857871
please respond

I want to become a Bosozoku! Varrom!

A friend of a friend is in the Yakuza. He was born in Spain to Japanese parents, but they exited the picture somehow (I didn't ask.) So he went back to Japan and somehow fell into the business. He is all tattooed up and sends the money he makes to the Spanish orphanage where his sister still lives. Sounds like a plot for a movie or animu if you ask me.

>>11857871
I read it, and I laughed when Adelstein couldn't figure out why the fuck Japanese folks would chew gum that made their teeth black. That kind of oversight leads me to believe that he very well could have misinterpreted a lot of shit. 'Alien Cop' was a bro, though, and overall the book is amusing.

I just got Kaplan's book on the Yakuza, but I haven't read it.

>>11878356
sounds like yakuza to me, robin hood.
is this possible? for Vietnamese guy to join/befriend yakuza?
I-I'd like to marry a nice japanese woman but dont want to get banged on by gangster from home country