Yakuza use Hawaii as a gateway for smuggling illegal goods into the US. The Yamaguchi is one of the main Yakuza gangs. Founded in 1915, the Yamaguchi are one of the largest and most powerful gangs in Japan. The Yamaguchi is the largest crime syndicate in Japan with over 55,000 members, 50% of all Yakuza. Their head office is in Kobe Within this gang, their members have been divided up into 850 clans. The Yamaguchi-gumi is extremely wealthy earning billions of dollars per year through weapon trafficking
turns on the slide. One child falls down and runs crying to his mother. A typical day at most any playground, but this is no ordinary playground. This is the Kristi Yamaguchi Always Dream Play Park, a playground "for children of all abilities that allows for physical as well as mental development" (Always Dream Play Park). Kristi Yamaguchi was born with a club foot, which inspired her to start the Always Dream Foundation in 1996. She and the foundation funds projects, such as this park, to make sure
Today in society, influential people can alter how people live their everyday lives in either a pleasant or an immoral manner. Athletes, such as famous Olympic figure skater, Kristi Yamaguchi, created a lasting impact on people everywhere. The way that athletes cope with their challenges and reach their goals is an important factor in the works of influencing a nation. An athlete’s extraordinary capabilities are another component of influencing a population. Another style that is used by influential
The Great Skater Like any other sport, ice-skating is obliged to creative people who bring something new to it. These people are known to everyone as the inventors of particular jumps, splits, spins. They are given credit for their work and, sometimes, the skating moves they invented carry their names. For instance, the Lutz jump was invented by Alois Lutz before World War II; the Walley jump was attributed to Bruce Mapes who performed with the Ice Follies in the 1930s. With Mabel Fairbanks
The novel The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama, follows Stephen Chan through a journal from a first person perspective. Stephen left his full-time home in Hong Kong, China to stay at his family's vacation house in Tarumi, Japan after being diagnosed with tuberculosis. In Tarumi, he met Matsu and Sachi. He quickly grew fond of their company. Over time, Stephen’s bonds with Matsu and Sachi grew into a form of loyalty that he had never experienced before. The three of them helped each other reach
Summary- Japanese police are readying themselves for a potential war between the yakuza group called the Yamaguchi-gumi and a group of Yamaguchi-gumi defectors and other small gangs calling themselves the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. The Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest Yakuza group in Japan, with over 35,000 members, (around 23,000 after the split) making up around 50% of all gangsters in Japan. They have an annual profit over the billions in U.S dollars every year. The yakuza group tries to stick to white
In the great Kobe earthquake of 1995, the Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest Yakuza gang, played no hesitation in providing aid to the people who were affected by the goliath of a disaster. Motor scooters, boats and even helicopters were dispatched by the Yamaguchi-gumi to distribute supplies and necessities. Sources showed that during the aftermath of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the group was distributing up
the police have been struggling with the yakuza. The relationship between the yakuza and the police has also evolved. The two groups used to be able to “give and take”, but now the Yamaguchi-gumi, the prominent Tokyo clan, have been uncooperative since their new leader, Tsukasa Shinobu, took power. The Yamaguchi-gumi has become huge with resources that rival japans corporations. They have swapped their gaudy way of dressing for suits, making them into businessmen rather than just thugs. According
counterfeiting, hostage taking, prostitution, weapons smuggling, murder, drug trafficking, and fraud. In Japan there is the Yakuza, also known as the 'Japanese Mafia', which consists of up to 2,500 families. The three largest groups in the Yakuza are the Yamaguchi-gumi, Sumiyaoshi-kai, and Inagawa-kai. These three groups together have around 61,100 members, or seventy-three percent of the gangster population in Japan. These organizations have been in existence for about 300 years, and have their roots in the
recent times, criminal organizations have become increasingly transnational, meaning they are not limited within the borders that they originate in, as a result of the Internet and advances in communication technologies. Crime syndicates like the Yamaguchi-gumi, the Russian mafia, and the Sinaloa Cartel pose immense threats to many nations outside of their own. Evidently, it is important to understand what exactly these criminal organizations are. This paper will attempt to define organized crime, describe
Organized crime isn’t just a local problem, but a worldwide issue. Usually when we think of organized crime we recall such movies as “ The Godfather” and well known Mafioso’s such as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, and overall the Italians. Before these people were even born or the movies thought of, there were already two powerful and dominate organized crime groups on the other side of the world. Recently they have come in the United States and have received a reputation of fear and respect. These
Religion and Crime are universal social processes, but first they may seem sovereign, even conflicting, social processes involving a separation conflict, disaster and disagreement; religion implies unity, peace and tranquility. However, the crime can be comprehensive and religion can move actors to challenge and negate the social and political order. Therefore, following Lewis Cosers observation that all social life "always involves harmony and conflict, attraction and compulsion, love and hate,"
Olympus: The biggest Japanese Fraud in History Olympus corporation history: Olympus was established in 1919 by Mr. Takeshi Yamashita. His initial goal with Olympus was to launch production of microscopes in Japan. The Olympus corparation is a camera and medical equipment producer. Its headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan and its current CEO is Shuichi Takayama. This corporation was the first to use industrial techniques to produce microscopes, in Japan. The name Olympus comes from Mont. Olympus, which