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Example sentences for: yakuza

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"The difference between us is that Japanese yakuza think of long-term business relationships, but the Chinese mafia thinks just of the short term.
A long article in the same magazine enters the terrifying world of the yakuza , Japanese organized-crime syndicates.
"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").
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!