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Type Words
Type of mobster, gangster
Type Words
Type of organized crime, gangland, gangdom

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Yakuza and Binary Domain are both Japanese takes on Western genres and concepts.
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The yakuza as a whole is regarded as a great supporter of both puroresu and MMA.
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Also, yakuza usually do not conduct the actual business operation by themselves.
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Last season, the Taliban got as fair a shake as the yakuza or the Apache Indians.
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Yakuza also have ties to the Japanese realty market and banking, through jiageya.
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When his yakuza boss mysteriously disappears, Kakihara hunts for his abductor.
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The yakuza have a strong influence in Japanese professional wrestling, or puroresu.
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Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, were the first to set up soup kitchens for the victims.
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A yakuza lieutenant comes to L.A. to help his half-brother, a low-level thug.
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  • A Japanese gangster
  • Organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises
  • Yakuza is an avant-garde metal band, formed in Chicago in 1999.Yakuza bio, Prosthetic Records. Access date: September 30, 2008. They have been acclaimed for their incorporation of jazz and world music elements.
  • Yakuza is an indie rock band from Northern Ireland, with an interest in experimenting with different aspects of sound.
  • Nikolai Dante is the eponymous hero of a comics series published in the weekly British science fiction anthology 2000 AD. Created by writer Robbie Morrison and artist Simon Fraser, Dante first appeared in 1997 in Prog 1035. ...
  • The Yakuza is a 1975 neo-noir gangster film directed by Sydney Pollack, written by Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader, and Robert Towne.
  • A Japanese organized crime gang; A member of a Japanese organized crime gang
  • Japanese underworld crime syndicate. Tommy Kimura is part of a bakuto (gamblers gang) The gang structure is:
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