Yakuza

progressive was the food and drug act which took away from some businesses and made it safer as they couldn 't sell spoiled meat or rat turd meat. With the making of prohibition it made it so you could bootleg alcohol and it made mafias possible like the Yakuza clan or even Al capone (Scarface) himself. It allowed for large businesses that should have been…

engaging either individually or collectively in violent or illegal behavior (Wikipedia). Prior to watching World 's Most Dangerous Gangs, the only gangs I ever heard of were the Bloods, Crips, Yakuza, and the Russian Mafia. Gangs in general are considered a nuisance and dangerous. Hollywood depicts gangs like the Yakuza and the Russian Mafia to be brutal, organized, and sophisticated. However, they are real in how dangerous they can be and not just violent movies. Until this week I had never…

Organized crime generally uses tattoos to display affiliation to a certain gang, mafia, clan or region the wearer belongs to, as well as their status within the group. One such organization is the yakuza. Members get a full body suit known as horimono tattooed on them. Ryan Lobo, a photographer and filmmaker, writes, “Getting a horimono tattoo is a very painful process and takes months, sometimes years to complete…Each tattoo is unique and incredibly…

The Japanese culture prior to the radical changes in society, refered the tattos as a sign of criminality because the Yakuza (the japanese mafia) have elaborated tattoos. With these background tattoos are prohibited in the onsen even if they are barely visible or is a foreigner who has them. There are some exceptions but you need to check the rules from the onsen you are…

Somehow I find pure joy in watching two men or women display their superior ass kicking skills on one another. So much so that I endure movies with painfully corny and cliché story lines, all to watch Keanu Reeves in a well tailored suit show off his impressive mixed martial art abilities and military grade handling of assault rifles (John Wick). What the movie lacks in its plot more than graciously substitutes in for its incredibly stylish persona of John Wick, as well as a more than healthy…

AD). After 600 AD until 1600 AD there is little to no Japanese recordings of tattoo culture. This is possibly because tattoos had become such a negative part of society. The infamous tattoos in Japan which belong to the Yakuza did not arrive on the island until the 1600’s. The Yakuza are the reason why often tattoos in Japan are now associated with criminals…

Lately, it seems that the media has been solely focused on politics and celebrities. There are many problems that are going on in the world that many of these news outlets are failing to report on like the war in Syria, the opioid problem plaguing the United States, the immigration crisis in Europe, and many more. One problem in particular that really resonates with me is the sex trafficking and slavery that is going on in Thailand. People question what it really is. It is necessary that people…

place in modern day in Japan during the Spring. The main characters of the book are Raku Ichjo, he is a nice and kind person and always thinks about others before himself. He is also the main protagonist of the book a normal teen whose family is Yakuza which is a gang in Japan. Chitoge Kirisaki is half American and half Japanese girl and also comes from a family of gangsters. A very short tempered and violent girl. Kosaki Onodera a very nice and kind person and Raku’s crush. They are all…

Peepers that could out-stare hoods of Yakuza gang-lords; his wiry body gave off a hatchling figure, and the aquiline nose and vulture sunken cheeks added to the concoction of disregarded bird parts: I haven't had the pleasure of working with him before and I can honestly say I found him repellent…

20. Death Note (Shusuke Kaneto, 2006) Based on the homonymous manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, "Death Note" is the most commercially successful title of the list having spawned video games, light novels, an anime series, a two-part film, a spin-off movie, while a new film is scheduled to screen this October. This entry is for the first two films. The story follows Yagami Light, a student who discovers a notebook, that when someone writes a name of someone in it, this individual dies…