Photographer captures intimate portraits of Yakuza

Davey

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Found this nice video about this guy that lived was surrounded by the Yakuza for years and took photos of their lives.

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thomas

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Interesting. Who would have thought that journalists can still milk the yakuza topic to make money? Anton Kusters posted a lot of his photos on his website. And an interview here.

Davey, you have probably come across their kind quite often in Kobe. Here around Tokyo I have only seen once what I believed to be chimpira clad in brightly-coloured suits. But perhaps there were just cosplaying in Ikebukuro.

 

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I was in an onsen earlier this year in a mid sized city and a guy covered in tattoos sat down beside me to wash himself. A bit jarring at first, but I saw him several times after that in the onsen and it was kinda normal.

 

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Although the Yamaguchi gumi's head office is only a 10minute walk from my House I don't really see anything. There was just one time when I went to Nada onsen (5min south from their head office) when I saw a guy covered with tattoos.

And yeah, the chimpira guys wouldn't dare to be in the HQ area.