Example sentences for: yakuza

How can you use “yakuza” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "The Chinese gangs are taking business from us in every area--in prostitution, in gambling, in fencing, in stolen goods," said one yakuza to New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof.

  • Yakuza members, who are six times more numerous than American Mafiosi, hand out business cards with gang names printed on them and frequently sport amputated pinkies ("cut to atone for a misdeed").

  • "The difference between us is that Japanese yakuza think of long-term business relationships, but the Chinese mafia thinks just of the short term.

  • Some have said that the Japanese even conform in rebellion: the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) all dress alike though a little sharper, e.g. two-colour ties, mean pairs of wraparounds, tattoos, brutal crew cuts, and an attitude!

  • A long article in the same magazine enters the terrifying world of the yakuza , Japanese organized-crime syndicates.


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