Ewok, some of the prostitues are also not Japanese, and sometimes they have problems 'seeing' their passports, if you know what I mean. Their stays in the industry are limited to how long they keep their looks and if the Yakuza bosses don't 'get tired' of them.
If you are a young women who defaults on repaying her loan you might get the experience. Usually "normal" people are extremely chocked when they fail to repay their loan in a seemingly genuine financial institute and some day the Yakuza turns up at their home. Usually they are able to find to money one way or another. If not the threats become more servere. If the Yakuza thinks that the woman who took the loan or the wife of the man who took the loan i good looking, they will try to make her become prostitute. This commonly known to be the practice of the Yakuza, amazing that you do not know about that!I know some foreigners who work in other industries who are also in such sad situations, and hang around for the money despite it being poor.
Still returns to the point - Are Japanese people being forced into the same situation? Are they a very small minority? Are all adult related industries run by the Yakuza?
Police search Yamaguchi-gumi over fatal shooting of rival gangster
Police on Monday searched the headquarters of the nation's largest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, in Hyogo Prefecture on suspicion the yakuza group was involved in the killing of a senior member of the rival Sumiyoshi-kai earlier this month.
Last Wednesday, the Tokyo police raided the offices of Kokusui-kai, a mobster group affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi, on suspicion of murder and weapons violation charges. They plan to investigate how the Yamaguchi-gumi was involved in the killing, according to the police.
On Feb. 5, Ryoichi Sugiura, 43, a senior member of the Sumiyoshi-kai, was shot dead on a street in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The killing was followed by a spate of shooting incidents in Tokyo which the police believe are connected with a gangland war between the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Sumiyoshi-kai.
According to the police, the Kokusui-kai, which controlled organized crime operations in a downtown area of Tokyo, had been allowing the Tokyo-based Sumiyoshi-kai to operate there on a kind of "lease" basis. However, the Kokusai-kai joined the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi in 2005 and the police say they believe Sugiura was having trouble with the Yamaguchi-gumi over such a "leased" area.
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I think this thread is starting to go the way of other fringe culture threads - are we backing up any of this with evidence?
Is the work of fiction from one novelist enough to base these statements upon?
And what you are describing (Japanese people in debt) are rare cases. Its far easier to dissapear, or loan the money from family.
I would like to think that these guys are a good thing for Japan, they keep things right in order, unlike in western countries, where many innocent people get affected by mafias, right??
Mauricio
Oh yes, from what I understand, the human traficking problem is a big one, indeed. I read in the Japan Times several years ago a piece about a woman from South America I think it was who was given false promises and misled into coming to Japan only to find that she was now a sex worker, and it was almost impossible to get out of it.
And what you are describing (Japanese people in debt) are rare cases. Its far easier to dissapear, or loan the money from family.
I guess this guy was keeping the streets safe for us, huh?
I was stalked for almost six months.
The results of a survey posted on Japan Times Online April 17-21.
It started off when a car passed by and the driver asked me if he could invite me for a ride. I'm a good-looking woman, and used to these sort of flirtations, so I simply ignored him. But, one week later, I saw him waiting near the train station, and he was still giving me the remarks. He seemed to know where I live and what time I usually come home. Realising the danger, I reported it to the police. No action was taken. I began to panic when one night I heard my flat's door knob being twisted from outside. I went to the police again and still no action was taken. I was already giving up and planning to move place when one night I saw the man again, and ran to the police "koban." He tried to speed off, but the traffic lights turned red and he had to stop, so I forced the policeman to go and check on him. That was the first time the police ever found out his details. Can you imagine? What had they been doing for all these months? Anyway, he denied my accusations, saying that he was waiting for his girlfriend who lives in the area. Since he'd already been questioned by the police, I was afraid he would change from flirting to attacking me. So I sought legal help, but even the lawyer wasn't interested in taking up my case. One day, I befriended a bar owner near my house and told her about my problem. She said to me, "Don't worry, I'll take care of it for you." True enough, I haven't seen the man around since. I learnt some months later that she told her yakuza customers to take care of it and told me not to worry about it anymore . . . and the case was closed. But the issue here is why no people in official authorities, like the police or lawyers, take this matter seriously? I was lucky that the bar owner took pity on me and helped me out. I think this issue is alarming and should be given serious attention.
J.S., Tokyo
Changing the subject, I asked him what he thought of the police.
That seemed to hit a nerve. He got up excitedly an ran to the window beckoning me to follow. He pointed to a shrine and several shuttered shops. "Do you see those two shops, they were shut down by the police, but see that building attached to the shrine, that is a whorehouse that is allowed to run its business. They pay money to the police, who also get to **** there for free. They have a license that was given to them thanks to a politician. You should write about that, it is a scandal."
He had a good point。The shrine is owned partially by Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The open space in front of the shrine, the fountain, the statue in front of it and the garden are all owned by city. The Shrine building itself is owned by the property owner's association. They rent out what used to be the shrine's kura or warehouse, to a brothel. In a way, you could call it mayor Shintaro Ishihara's whorehouse.
Police search Yamaguchi-gumi over fatal shooting of rival gangster
Police on Monday searched the headquarters of the nation's largest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, in Hyogo Prefecture on suspicion the yakuza group was involved in the killing of a senior member of the rival Sumiyoshi-kai earlier this month.
IThe Osaka based Yamaguchi Gumi