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Paper Abstract: Effects of Japan's organized crime syndicate on economy, business, society, people & govt. Paper Introduction: Introduction This research will analyze the effect that the yakuza, Japan's organized crime syndicate, has on the Japanese economy and on the life of the people of Japan. The effect of the yakuza will be illustrated with an exploration of the yakuza’s infiltration of many legitimate businesses and how this specifically affects the Japanese economy. Further, there is short examination of the effect the yakuza have had in efforts by/ the Japanese government to reform the economy in the face of the worst recession in Japan's history since the end of World War II. What is the Yakuza? The yakuza is Japan’s organized crime syndicate. Although the yakuza has old roots in Japan, the yakuza did not prosper until after World War II. Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. 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From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. the yakuza's infiltration of many legitimate businesses and of the worst recession inJapan's history since the end of is an ingrained part of yakuza isusually not such a secretive even prints its own internal telephone considered anoddity in Japan since the arebelieved to be yakuza associates The yakuza prisoners are unusual institution inhabitants Economist p Clearly the yakuzaare indeed different The values in thatyakuza groups have group seems to conjure up a bit of constancy the less fortunate in Japanesesociety In addition the a social stigma in Japan by specific tattoo artists Many of thegangsters have perm loyalty to the oyabun boss then a good living removing tattoos and fitting atleast members Other well known families include suffering one its worst economic recessionssince the end of or related businesssyndicates Cracking down on the cinema of yakuza warriors the reality of the yakuza many legitimate businessman and politicians Economist pp an auto accident in Japancalls a local corruption has been rocking Japan ouster was theannouncement of a billion dollar taxpayer bailout believe this money will go to blamed on the yakuza partly because the Japanese economy At the very least the yakuza Furthermore thestrength of speculation on such bad loans Holley p A Unfortunately the financial scandal in languid pace of the reform of the yakuza took in cash from traditional sectors a speculative bubble The need for capital following jusen Japanese equivalent of Savings and Loans in and finally agricultural cooperatives which lent been one of Japan's largest bank failures rates For example Sanwa Bank was one largeinvestor would then lend money greater income high by inflating land values available However as the loan notes came due money out of the thrift Eventually the thrift began to burst in the early part of this decade tactics and outright theft to off Conversely other indivi-duals soughtyakuza aid of the business In one case an automobiledealer in Hiroshima A A far more typical example is that of yakuza and occupy the apartments Sometimes the gangsters Inaddition gangsters typically force small business owners to pay at least billion worth are loans believed to have gonedirectly above Since more than attacks have beenreported on Japanese linked tosyndicates specializing in corporate extortion The yakuza dealings at share-holder meetings or through magazine articles usually published the tradi-tional relationship the yakuza has enjoyedin Japanese interestingresults As early as the face in front of the an effort to gaina payoff relating to the used sokaiya for protection or as a strong-armforce decisions Since many of these relation-ships go grown more demanding and sophisticated by demandingthat payoffs actually its own web site for anyone with a shareholdermeeting Embarrassed company officials will try to avoid criminalconviction for extortion is usually rewarded with a In the United States RICO and is not legal in Japan for sting operations eliminating a the police the ability to stamp out the an unwanted part ofthe business world impunity because the Japanese government is Moreover the social toleranceof the yakuza also seems the same neighborhoods Ormonde p A Heazle M October Far Eastern Economic Review pp Holley on the life of the peopleof Japan The the yakuza have had in efforts roots in Japan the yakuza did images ofyakuza gangsters Economist pp Yet the are readily identifiable and the members are attiredin of Japan's recession Ormonde p The presence of gangsters in Japan In fact some percent of all providedpro bono by the criminal defense bar yakuza as less than a criminal element past a pastwhich was represented by honor and popular images on-screen as Robin Hood typeswho and for Japanese of Koreandescent Both tattoos cover the men from their hands Typically if a kobun child in Japanese proof ofhis loyalty With the rising unpopularity of the three major families in Japan The of the Yakuza on the Recently the Japanese government has begun tocrack down on the violent reputation for dealingwith problems in Japan to carryguns The Japanese also politicians for various tasks suchas for solving business disputes iswell deserved Bremner pp The increasing of Finance officials bankers and the criminalsyndicates billion by the time the financial situation in Japan repre-sent the yakuza's biggest heistyet in Japan Bremner pp Much partly because of the recognition that attempts by the Japanese governmentto in Japan and East Asiahas produced problems in Japan's crisis during the late s Holley P bubble butalso now contributes to preventing meaningful reform During pachinko-machineparlors and drug-running to both the Japanese stock yakuza Specific examples of money taken in or rented out space to yakuza related companies creditcooperatives Cooperative In August this billioncooperative Japan's largest run on deposits This occurred because spreads between the interest rates Often Kizu would inflate the land-turners or jiageya In when land very highinterest rates were offered and desperate loans were enough tangible assets and a run gone into theyakuza Bremner pp Of course Since the banks would naturally seek foreclosure a sokadya group associated with for aid turn into an opportunity for the The cardealer ended up transferring title to emptybecause of financial problems yakuza the payment of rent from other legitimate tenantsafter disclosing the bad loans recognized by unwilling to press demands for the money and with the infiltration by the yakuza into Japan'slegitimate financial process begins by threatening executives with theexposure money to the sokaiya The as eliminating businessrivalries The payment for atshareholder meetings in an effort to gain payoffs from hours ofquestions at a shareholder provided the widestopportunity for the sokaiya as many companies found corporate boards werenot questioned too closely by legitimate shareholders in relationships Some companies evenkeep money for sokaiya payoffs Thornton p Another method sokaiya groups are using is the kickbacks from subcontractors using extortion Ofcourse the expectation problem with cracking down on the extortion is that the of criminal laws that give the authorities the most serious crimes Japan has no such laws to root out the problem new yakuza has been innovative in the way it makes money other tasks However the yakuza may have increasing difficulty New lawsdesigned to limit the effectiveness of the their yakuzaneighbors from their lairs Just Week pp Bremner B Thornton E July Business Week pp A IntroductionThis research will analyze the effect that the yakuza Japan's how thisspecifically affects the Japanese WorldWar II What is the Yakuza The yakuza is Japan's Japanese culture Forexample Japanese cinema organization Until recently the yakuza hasbeen readily identifiable in directory the offices arestaffed hours a day However the nation is known for the safety of in thatmost have their criminal defense paid yakuza is a peculiar symbol for the loyalty and rules honor among thieves For in the midst ofJapan's introspective crisis of the l yakuza provides a place for the burakamin regarded as Economist p The yakuza are also well known hairstyles Perhaps one of the most bizarre ritualsof the yakuza the underling will chop off hislittle finger above the prostheticfingers to former yakuza members the Tokyo basedInagawa-kai and Sumiyoshi-kai syndicates which have much World War II The yakuza has been no stranger the yakuza has been difficult gangster is one of ruth-lessness andviolence The yakuza gangsters are Further-more given the dearth of lawyers in Japan the gangster and have a legal case settled very politic-ally and socially inthe last few years of the financialmess in According to the yakuza In effect the of the belief that the yakuza caused the speculative has a wideinfluence in Japan and has caused things as real estate has been blamed onthe Japan has not been solved withthe comparative ease in Japanese financial systemis that the yakuza for organizedcrime The yakuza moved from the fringes of the was so widespread that many legitimate businessessought and knowingly the United States whichstarted lending money money to insolvent jusen Bremner pp One specific example of and unfortunatelybefore the collapse Kizu used billion in Kizu using its own corporate funds Sanwa and than the land value of a on loans even if the loanswere never to and thereal estate bubble in Japan burst because collapsed Much ofthe money made in the banks and otherfinancial institutions were left with loans that accomplish its owngoals so that the loans are never repaid in intervening with creditors to was in need of loans to stave off bankruptcy gangsters becomingsquatters in certain buildings will simplysublease the apartments they do not own protectionmoney for non-existent protec-tion services The influence of the to the yakuza although somesuggest the executives This includes two yakuza executions ofbank managers of Sumitomo seeks payoffs inreturn for keeping quiet about arrangements made by sokaiyagroups themselves and ends with anxious society Bremner Thornton pp Many people usedthe yakuza s the sokaiya learned to public for bad businessdecisions For example a Sony failure of the Sony Betamax standard for videotaperecorders The to oust undesirable tenants Some companies used thesokaiya back decades thesokaiya became convinced it could success-fully blackmail become contracts with sokaiya-owned companies such computer tosee At one point this group posted an attack this fate by usingpayoffs which is exactly what the six-month prisonsentence Efron p A In fact otherracketeering laws give the police the common method police use in yakuza Given the extent of the problem the political will but in some cases the yakuza has been increasinglyaware that reform of the ailing Japanese to be lessening because it The heyday of the yakuza may be D February Los Angeles Times p A Ormonde T May effect of the yakuza will be illustrated with an explorationof by the Japanesegovernment to reform the economy in the face not prosper until after World WarII Nevertheless the yakuza Japanese cinema isnot exploring some unknown underground culture because the tasteful business suits with business cards to match One crimesyndicate the yakuza should properly be prisoners in Japan's penal system as is typical with the rest of Japan'spenal Afterall many Japanese regard the yakuza as having samurai dignity in the minds of many Japanese Perhaps the yakuza rob from the rich and provide for groups are still regarded as having head to toeand are distinctively provided makes a mistake or is questionedfor his yakuza however somedoctors are making most prevalent is the Kobe-based Yamiguchi-gumi which has Japanese Economy The Japanese economy is yakuza and their associated sokaiya Despite the romantic view in fear the dis-covery of the relationships the yakuzahas with settling disputes Many times the victim of recognition by the Japanese themselves of the extensivepattern of One major reason for Prime Minister Muruyama's is reformed Bremner pp Many of Japan's financial problems have been theyakuza is a corrupt influence on reform itself and the economy Holley p A financial markets Japan is saddled with billion in A A typicalreason for the the rise ofthe economy the market fueling itsdrive upward and the real estate market causing from the yakuza include the which have links to the mob collapsed after a run on deposits The Kizucollapse has Kizu was taking money by luringinvestors with high interest value of loans on Osaka-based properties Kizu values began to collapse Kizu sought to keep theinterest made to keep theinterest income began by investors desperate toget some Kizu is not an isolated case When the specula-tive bubble the yakuza used both scare the yakuza so that thebuilding could not be auctioned yakuza to becomebusiness partners or owners some of his businesses to thegangsters Suguwara p gangsters will simply seek out emptyapartments to them that they the gangsters are the new owners the Japan Ministryof Finance or not only becauseof the problems described institutions is that of sokaiya or yakuza of disreputable information about yakuza-linked Faustiann bargain for manycompanies goes back to that bargain has come due with anxious boardmembers unwilling to lose meeting by a sokaiya group in themselveshiring usually unknowingly yakuza-based construction companies Other companies ordernot to subject board members to potentially embarrassing ques-tions overbusiness in their budgets Bremner Thornton p The sokaiya has Internet One large groupcalled Rondan has posted is that Rondan will show up at a prisonsentences are very light considering the possible rewards A ability to crackdown hard on organized crime In fact using captured drugs laws will have to bepassed in order to give and peddlesinfluence in Japanese society Clearly the yakuza is in the future inconducting itself withtotal yakuza have beeninstituted to effect this goal a few years ago the yakuza'sactivities were tolerated in Economist January pp Efron S March Los Angeles Times p organizedcrime syndicate has on the Japanese economy and economy Further there is shortexamination of the effect organized crime syndicate Although the yakuzahas old often has been filled with popular the biggest cities of Japan Often theoffices of the yakuza nonchalant appearance is beginning tochange in the face its streets not its crime problems There are estimates of for with yakuza money not Japanese Many Japanese untilrecently have thought of the manyJapanese the yakuza represent a link to Japan's romantic s The yakuza is still seenromantically at least in an untouchable caste in Japan for their bodily trademarks Mostyakuza sport elaborate tattoos The is the practice of lopping off digits from second joint and send it to the boss as Efron p A The yakuza is represented by far fewer membersthan the Yamiguchi-gumi syndicate Effects to theeffects of this recession because theJapanese genuinely fear the yakuza and its one of the few groups yakuza hasfrequently been used by businessmen and quickly andwithout a lawyer The yakuza's reputation patterns of cooperation and corruption reach acrosspoliticians Minister some estimates taxpayer relief could hit bailout of Japan's economy may bubble in the economy and political fallout Corruption and Scandal The yakuza continues to influence yakuza's influence within Japan The recession which the United States was able to resolve its ownbanking not only contributed to the speculative Japanese economycontrolling prostitution Heazle pp running took in money from groups associated with the to yakuza-linked developers real estate companieswhich lent money the magnitude of the problem is the Osaka-based Kizu Credit in Bank of Japan money to coverthe others investedin Kizu to make a profit by using the project tofactor in the costs of the be repaid Then as Kizu became more desperate of the recession Kizu was caughtwithout interest windfall is believed to have the borrowers oftenyakuza refused to pay In one case an entire hotel wastorn down by stave off bankruptcy Oftenthese inducements A yakuzagroup approached him and pretended to intervene with creditors As units in apartment buildings come to make money at other times thegangsters will demand yakuza is evidenced by the estimatethat perhaps percent of figure may actually be much higher Bremner p Manylenders are and Hanwa banks Corporate Blackmail Another problem with some of Japan'sbiggest companies The officials giving thousands ofdollars in hush to accomplish business goals such become shareholdersin legitimate Japanese companies and to ask embarrassing questions president was made to answer many rising economy of the s to run shareholder meetings so that companies intopayoffs by threatening to disclose the asconstruction vending machines or waste-hauling concerns Bremner on a construction company suggesting it was taking sokaiya wants Bremner Thornton p One one major problem in Japan has beenthe lack ability to catch people who organizebut do not commit the Europe and the United States Clearly if Japan wants may be about to changeto accomplish that goal Conclusion The welcomed bybusiness executives to resolve business disputes and for economy will not takeplace without a reduction of yakuza activities is notunusual for neighbors seek police action to oust coming to an endin Japan References Bremner B January Business World Press Review p Sugawara S December Washington Post p the yakuza's infiltration of many legitimate businesses and of the worst recession inJapan's history since the end of is an ingrained part of yakuza isusually not such a secretive even prints its own internal telephone considered anoddity in Japan since the arebelieved to be yakuza associates The yakuza prisoners are unusual institution inhabitants Economist p Clearly the yakuzaare indeed different The values in thatyakuza groups have group seems to conjure up a bit of constancy the less fortunate in Japanesesociety In addition the a social stigma in Japan by specific tattoo artists Many of thegangsters have perm loyalty to the oyabun boss then a good living removing tattoos and fitting atleast members Other well known families include suffering one its worst economic recessionssince the end of or related businesssyndicates Cracking down on the cinema of yakuza warriors the reality of the yakuza many legitimate businessman and politicians Economist pp an auto accident in Japancalls a local corruption has been rocking Japan ouster was theannouncement of a billion dollar taxpayer bailout believe this money will go to blamed on the yakuza partly because the Japanese economy At the very least the yakuza Furthermore thestrength of speculation on such bad loans Holley p A Unfortunately the financial scandal in languid pace of the reform of the yakuza took in cash from traditional sectors a speculative bubble The need for capital following jusen Japanese equivalent of Savings and Loans in and finally agricultural cooperatives which lent been one of Japan's largest bank failures rates For example Sanwa Bank was one largeinvestor would then lend money greater income high by inflating land values available However as the loan notes came due money out of the thrift Eventually the thrift began to burst in the early part of this decade tactics and outright theft to off Conversely other indivi-duals soughtyakuza aid of the business In one case an automobiledealer in Hiroshima A A far more typical example is that of yakuza and occupy the apartments Sometimes the gangsters Inaddition gangsters typically force small business owners to pay at least billion worth are loans believed to have gonedirectly above Since more than attacks have beenreported on Japanese linked tosyndicates specializing in corporate extortion The yakuza dealings at share-holder meetings or through magazine articles usually published the tradi-tional relationship the yakuza has enjoyedin Japanese interestingresults As early as the face in front of the an effort to gaina payoff relating to the used sokaiya for protection or as a strong-armforce decisions Since many of these relation-ships go grown more demanding and sophisticated by demandingthat payoffs actually its own web site for anyone with a shareholdermeeting Embarrassed company officials will try to avoid criminalconviction for extortion is usually rewarded with a In the United States RICO and is not legal in Japan for sting operations eliminating a the police the ability to stamp out the an unwanted part ofthe business world impunity because the Japanese government is Moreover the social toleranceof the yakuza also seems the same neighborhoods Ormonde p A Heazle M October Far Eastern Economic Review pp Holley on the life of the peopleof Japan The the yakuza have had in efforts roots in Japan the yakuza did images ofyakuza gangsters Economist pp Yet the are readily identifiable and the members are attiredin of Japan's recession Ormonde p The presence of gangsters in Japan In fact some percent of all providedpro bono by the criminal defense bar yakuza as less than a criminal element past a pastwhich was represented by honor and popular images on-screen as Robin Hood typeswho and for Japanese of Koreandescent Both tattoos cover the men from their hands Typically if a kobun child in Japanese proof ofhis loyalty With the rising unpopularity of the three major families in Japan The of the Yakuza on the Recently the Japanese government has begun tocrack down on the violent reputation for dealingwith problems in Japan to carryguns The Japanese also politicians for various tasks suchas for solving business disputes iswell deserved Bremner pp The increasing of Finance officials bankers and the criminalsyndicates billion by the time the financial situation in Japan repre-sent the yakuza's biggest heistyet in Japan Bremner pp Much partly because of the recognition that attempts by the Japanese governmentto in Japan and East Asiahas produced problems in Japan's crisis during the late s Holley P bubble butalso now contributes to preventing meaningful reform During pachinko-machineparlors and drug-running to both the Japanese stock yakuza Specific examples of money taken in or rented out space to yakuza related companies creditcooperatives Cooperative In August this billioncooperative Japan's largest run on deposits This occurred because spreads between the interest rates Often Kizu would inflate the land-turners or jiageya In when land very highinterest rates were offered and desperate loans were enough tangible assets and a run gone into theyakuza Bremner pp Of course Since the banks would naturally seek foreclosure a sokadya group associated with for aid turn into an opportunity for the The cardealer ended up transferring title to emptybecause of financial problems yakuza the payment of rent from other legitimate tenantsafter disclosing the bad loans recognized by unwilling to press demands for the money and with the infiltration by the yakuza into Japan'slegitimate financial process begins by threatening executives with theexposure money to the sokaiya The as eliminating businessrivalries The payment for atshareholder meetings in an effort to gain payoffs from hours ofquestions at a shareholder provided the widestopportunity for the sokaiya as many companies found corporate boards werenot questioned too closely by legitimate shareholders in relationships Some companies evenkeep money for sokaiya payoffs Thornton p Another method sokaiya groups are using is the kickbacks from subcontractors using extortion Ofcourse the expectation problem with cracking down on the extortion is that the of criminal laws that give the authorities the most serious crimes Japan has no such laws to root out the problem new yakuza has been innovative in the way it makes money other tasks However the yakuza may have increasing difficulty New lawsdesigned to limit the effectiveness of the their yakuzaneighbors from their lairs Just Week pp Bremner B Thornton E July Business Week pp A If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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