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7 Sep 2007, 7:01 am
Federico Varese, Oxford University School of Law, has published "The Secret History of Japanese Cinema: The Yakuza Movies," as Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper 22/2006. [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 5:11 pm
Indeed a plausible folk etymology for the word "yakuza" traces it to the name of the worst possible score in a kind of Japanese blackjack--8-9-3, "ya-ku-sa," totalling 20, a wipe-out, crash-and-burn.Source: David E. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 9:47 am
An article in the New York Times on Japanese efforts to push the Yakuza out of businesses there: When the toasts are raised here next year at the opening of the world’s tallest communications tower, yakuza gangsters will not be celebrating. [read post]
26 Dec 2015, 11:01 am
As you review the slides that follow, one might focus on both the "Yakuza Elimination Clause" and the "CSR Clause. [read post]
US authorities arrest alleged Japanese crime family member accused of trafficking drugs and missiles
8 Apr 2022, 1:38 pm
Three of the men were Thai nationals, but Takeshi Ebisawa is a Japanese national who US authorities allege is a part of the Yakuza, a network of highly-organized crime families based in Japan that operate around the world. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 2:45 am
Further probing of the issue reveals an unusual twist: several fan club members are in the “Yakuza” which is the Japanese catch-all term for organized crime. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 12:01 am
When the two go to her Yakuza father to ask him for their blessing, she is taken hostage in a raid by a rival gang. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 5:46 am
WSJ Organized crime: The U.S. government entered the battle against Japanese organized crime, announcing a freeze on American-owned assets controlled by the largest yakuza syndicate, Yamaguchi-gumi, and the group’s top two leaders. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 3:37 am
Ju-to-ho is a Japanese firearms and swords law. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 12:12 am
How much else she chose to alter is unknown by me.Tett, Gillian, Saving the Sun, gripping ticktock of the American-led takeover of a failed Japanese bank. [read post]
31 May 2008, 11:44 am
It seems, though, that providers are not exactly immune to outrageous games, either.First up, we learn that the UCLA Medical Center has been bumping legitimate, deserving, long-suffering American organ transplant candidates in favor of yakuza, members of Japanese organized crime groups. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 10:15 am
The YAKUZA The Yakuza (a.k.a. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 6:37 am
Another album, 2001's Love and Theft, was claimed to have passages similar to lines from Confessions of a Yakuza, a gangster novel by obscure Japanese writer Junichi Saga. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 5:31 pm
Russian organized crime cases Yakuza-related cases involving alleged members of the Japanese organized crime group. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 5:31 pm
Russian organized crime cases Yakuza-related cases involving alleged members of the Japanese organized crime group. [read post]
13 Jul 2022, 5:01 am
An individual shot and killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with an improvised firearm on July 8 while Abe was delivering a campaign speech in the city of Nara. [read post]
13 Jul 2022, 6:01 am
An individual shot and killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with an improvised firearm on July 8 while Abe was delivering a campaign speech in the city of Nara. [read post]
30 May 2013, 3:00 am
Gaijin Cowgirl Our newest title, Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio is a riveting pageturner that follows intrepid American Val Benson from seedy Japanese hostess bars into the Burmese jungles in search of World War II treasure with yakuza, crooked cops, rogue CIA and her Congressman father hot on her trail. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 2:08 pm
The fact that the Yakuza participated in the wrong done to himself doesn’t make it right. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 7:23 am
Indeed, rent control and rental distortions lead to organized crime, most notably Japanese Yakuza. [read post]
