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Despite not hoisting a family crest that is the billboard of Japanese gangsters, many mobsters related to Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization with its headquarters in Kobe (western Japan), have advanced into the Kanto district (eastern Japan). The number of these gangsters greatly increased during the bubble economy. As of now, these yakuza entrepreneurs (businesses invested in by the Japanese mafia) are related to those business types easily penetrated by the underground, such as finance, real estate and the investment banking system. The yakuza have advanced into legitimate society from the underworld, and their companies most certainly support a certain part of the Japanese economy.
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Yakuza Japanese
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If you've ever watched Japanese gangster movies, or had the misfortune of running into a yakuza in person, you know they speak a seemingly incomprehensible form of Japanese. As outcasts and deviants from society, gangsters have their own language with a unique and specialized vocabulary suited to their organizational culture and occupation. Yakuza Japanese runs the gamut from honorifics to epithets, with major regional variations. This webpage is designed as a primer to gangster Japanese, as used in movies, focusing on the Kansai (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto) and Tokyo varieties.
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