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About Asia
South China Morning Post
Why Japan’s yakuza crime groups are on the verge of disappearing
28 minutes Posted Mar 15, 2024 at 1:00 am.
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The yakuza are seeing a pop cultural renaissance with hit TV shows like Tokyo Vice and video games such as Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. In reality, however, the Japanese organised crime groups are in serious decline. But do their shrinking numbers tell the whole story? To learn more, the Post’s Jonathan Vit spoke with Dr Martina Baradel, a criminologist at the University of Oxford. Read more on this: https://sc.mp/r6law