The Yakuza — the Japanese Mafia

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The Yakuza are members of a Japanese crime syndicate that were founded back in the 17th Century, during the mid-Edo period.
They very much see themselves as a Ninkyo Dantai, a ‘Chivalrous Organization’, that prides itself on tradition, family and maintaining a strict code of conduct.

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Sources:

Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960
By Eiko Maruko Siniawer
An Economic History of Organized Crime: A National and Transnational Approach
By Dennis M. P. McCarthy
Understanding Organized Crime
By Stephen L. Mallory
Organized Crime
By Howard Abadinsky
Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld
By David E. Kaplan, Alec Dubro

The Yakuza — the Japanese Mafia