fun fact : when the first president of Indonesia visiting Japan,the Japanese government refused to give escort to the president. after that the president hired Yakuza to do their escort.
Now hold up, you telling me Mr Sukarno hires Yakuzas for his visit in Japan when the president of Japan at the time refuse to give him an escort? HOW DIDN'T I LEARNED THIS MY HISTORY LESSON? I'M INDONESIAN I'M SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT BUT I DIDN'T
@@spaghettiman7108 okee(gw bales pake b.indo ya) jadu tahun 58 pak sukarno mau kejepeang, nah terus di Jepang tuh ada rumor kalo ada kelompok anti sukarno sudah masuk jepang. nah pas tau itu beliau meminta pengawalan kepada polisi jepang,tapi mereka menolak alasannya pak sukarno dianggap melakukan kunjungan tidak resmi. nah pas tau begitu org kepercayaan sukarno kolonel sambas atmadinata menghubungi temannya (org jepang) di masa perang, temannya ini memberi saran untuk menyewa pengawal pribadi yaitu yakuza.
Trivia: The children's show "Bob the Builder" had to be revised in Japan. In the UK and US versions, Bob had 4 fingers. In Japan, the humans were made to have 5 fingers instead of 4, as a man having 4 fingers indicates their membership with the Yakuza. It's part of Japanese culture and society at the time.
Fun fact about Yakuza’s tattoos: This tradition originates from back before Meiji years when the criminals were tattooed about their crimes each time they were brought in to jails.
I'm Japanese and I want you to note: The term "YAKUZA" is very humiliating to those people. They never use that word to refer to themselves. They prefer to call themselves "GOKUDO".
Good question. Let me try to explain. 1. DO means way of something like judo, kendo, bushido, etc. 2. GOKU means extreme or ultimate, so literally GOKUDO is way of extreme, or way of ultimate. Make sense, I hope? Anyway its a word to express their pride being outlaw. 3. Usage is a bit different from other -DO terms, like practice kendo or exercise, judo. GOKUDO refers to certain type or grope of people, used like We are GOKUDO, he is a GOKUDO, or I'm a wife of GOKUDO. Hope it helps.
In 2011, March 11, When an Earthquake and Tsunami hit Tokyo and Kobe Regions in Japan; The Yakuza managed to send out goods faster than the government. Edit: Changed typhoon to tsunami and earthquake. Given more information.
When I lived in Kobe a few years ago, there was a civil war over some secession crisis or whatever in the Yamaguchi-gumi that made it all over the news. Apparently this led to the group splitting in two, but I don't know if they made up. My friend lived near a particularly nice neighborhood that she suspected had a lot of Yakuza residences and during this time, there was a drive-by on one of those residences. No, there weren't mass shootouts in the streets between rival factions. They were pretty discreet about it all. Interesting fact. The Yakuza made the news one year for holding a Halloween event for where kids can go trick-or-treating at their HQ. They've been doing it for over a decade.
@@vaultboy1086 It's probably part of their PR strategy. At least that's what we all suspect. It's pretty well known that Yakuza membership has been declining over the years, and they want to repair that image. I don't know if they're still doing it. They stopped in 2017 and I haven't heard anything about them starting back up.
@referral madness most of their HQs look like many other ordinary office buildings in Japan, it doesn't look shady unless you know what it is. Btw, recently, yakuza has been opening up boba tea shops as one of the ways to make income as well as adapting to the new age.
When I was a teacher's aide a few years back, in a classroom of Japanese exchange students age 19-20, I had this one kid who was for sure Yakuza. He had spiked, bleached hair, and I always saw him outside our classroom smoking. He had no friends. He would always wear long sleeves, and when his collar slipped I saw that he had a full body suit of tattoos. Finally, when I asked him what he wanted to do as a career, all he would say was "I will work for my father's business".
I seen a few in san diego.one Taking criminal justice classes and one in business class. Tuff respectful and didn't associate with the hipster college crowd
"In Japan. Heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yukaza boss need new heart. I do operation, but mistake! Yukaza boss die! Yukaza very mad! I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yukaza boss on purpose. I good surgeon, the best!"
You failed to mention that the Yakuza played a huge role in maintaining social stability during the post-WWII period when the feudal government was rendered useless, and the nation's pride and masculinity destroyed by the nuclear bombs. People looked to these "criminals" to settle neighbourly disputes and maintain basic security.
Yes and no. Nintendo produced hanafuda card decks which are to make comparisons are a lot like our standard 52 card decks in which many games can be played with them not just one. So Nintendo made cards that were more than likely used for gambling but not explicitly for.
No, it became popular after the video game crash because they were ruthless and didn't let retail stores sell the nes if they're selling competing products. Also, the '83 crash only happened in north amerika, everywhere else was fine.
Did you know that the most committed members of the Yakuza have the backs of their knees tattooed which is the most painful part of the body to have a tattoo.
While stationed in Okinawa, we were told that anyone with tattoos where prohibited from entering public beaches as they were automatically assumed to be Yakuza. Even if you weren’t Asian. Sometimes we’ll spot Yakuza hanging out by casinos and bars too. Crazy times on Oki.
is it really a day to day topic? are your people afraid of these gangs? i would like to know because in some parts of this world there are gangs in countrys but people of normal society dont really care about them or are not really affected by their actions
Is it really true that they employ chicken as manager for their business?
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@@Flollo420 i don't think yakuza is a gang. They surely won't beat you up and take your wallet. In Italy, a certain Sicilian city happened to be where some powerful banks took roots (because of Renaissance history), well, in that city the mafia makes everything in its power to give national police no reason to come and pay a visit, they keep pickpockets at bay and if they need to fight they do it elsewhere. I guess there must be similar situations in japan
420 no no one talks about yakuza here. You don’t even hear about it on the news. They are irrelevant in normal society and they don’t want attention either so they stay relatively hidden
A well-meaning doc but a few big inaccuracies here: Quite a few Yakuza members are ethnic Korean, but ethnic Koreans are NOT Burakumin. Ethnic Koreans (Zainichi) along with Burakumin, both form a major chunk or the Yakuza ranks, but they are different from each other. Burakumin are a severely socially discriminated ethnic group that traces their ancestries to medieval peasants who had undesirable jobs that were considered unclean, like butchers or undertakers. Modern Yakuza also don't trace their lineage to the medieval-era peddlers and gambling establishments. Those were simply their 200 year-old counterparts. Modern Yakuza all trace their beginnings to war-torn Japan of the late 1940's, where poverty was rampant and there was an economic vacuum that placed the Yakuza in power.
Modern Yakuza might be the second generation of Yakuza. First was result of Meiji-restauration which broke down old social order and left many samurai penniless so they became criminals.
@@firecattle With that classification line between second and third generation is quite blurry while first and second have much clearer separation. If I remember correctly yakuza got their name from gambling term similar to "seven high" and former samurai were hired by gambling groups as enforcers and thus formed first generation. Quite interesting anomaly in organized crime.
Don't forget that every couple years or so the head of the whole clan fucks up somehow, ends up in a coma or goes missing and an angry looking dude in a grey suit has to beat the rest of the clan into submission to stop them from overthrowing the current chairman while he's indisposed.
Yakuzas don't bother those who don't screw with them and meddle in their affairs (that or if you're a corrupt government figure). Certain Mexican cartels and South American criminal syndicates however....
There is an ex-yakuza out there called Kazuma Kiryu". He was known as "The Dragon of Dojima" in his clan. He left the clan and now he's known as "karaoke dragon" in japan.
Yakuza are still prevelant in today's Japan. I was just a year ago on an exchange in Japan and I remember how we needed to walk in groups from at least 5 to the train station as somebody who looked like Yakuza had been spotted near the school. I didn't see the person but there were at least 3 police cars on the way as we walked.
well the mafia, yakuza and triads better hope the police wins (which by the way, they would realistically), because the national guard will begin a hunting season for them if the police were to be wiped out
Yakuza vs Russian mafia is basically the plot of one of Black Lagoon manga arc, as for the result, let's just say the Russian mafia goes all Spetsnaz on the Yakuza's.
If you watch the program about traveling "Inside out" where the reporter was able to talk with the right hand of the boss Yakuza in Tokyo, they talked about the similarities between the Russian Mafia and the Japanese. As a result, the Japanese are more traditionalist and Hierarchical, the Russian Mafia was more of a "gang's" because of anarchy of 90s. The post-soviet people, who understood how naive the Russians were, took advantage of this position to rob even the poor people in young and weak Russian Federation, those with whom they had studied and worked at the factory just yesterday. These were vile people who became hostages of the situation and forced them to take such a path of bloody bandit, while they also became those who supported this situation. Simply put, a certain ouroboros of chaos and misfortune. In clothes, they differed more. The Russian mafia was divided into a kind of unspoken hierarchy. At first, the bandits were "gopniks", street thugs and thieves. Then, they became “sixes”, already under the wing of a particular group, performing what they could be thugs. Later they became "thieves." From clothes, at first it was Adidas training suits, then jeans and leather jackets, and then expensive suits. The bandits drove used cars from Germany and the cars of late USSR, the "younger" bandits drove a VAZ-2109, as it was called a "chisel", those who had a little more money drove a Volvo 940 "swede", then the Mercedes W124 "wolf", BMW E34 "shark", BMW E38 "bumer", Mercedes W140 "boar", Toyota Land Cruiser 80 "jap or cruise", Mitsubishi Pajero "tank or mitsu", Jeep Grand Cherokee "Just Jeep". There was a funny story with these cars. Because of this Jeep, many, many years later, any crossover or SUV was called (Jeep). BMW was a car a little lower in class than a Mercedes, it was used by (thugs) in disassembly due to its speed, it is more aggressive, it was even given an alternative name in Russian "Fighting Vehicle of Thieves" "Boevaya Machina Vorov". BMW have since called "Bumer", and Mercedes called "Merin" or "Merce". And these cars were firmly entrenched with thieves, corrupt officials or bandits. Especially if they are black and have "expensive license plates." Later, the smarter and possibly meaner of "mafia" betrayed their comrades, began to cooperate with the police or bribe them for freedom, and became government officials. So this is not a joke, many in the government of the Russian Federation, former criminals, fraudsters, thieves, deceivers and so on. So technically, the Mafia has achieved what they wanted. Many Mafia want the police and lawyers to be on their side. But in Russia it turned out that now they don’t pay them. For they are their superiors...
@@radjadawamindra697 That's not really a fair comparison, frankly. Hotel Moscow aren't really mafiya, they are a literal former Airborne Infantry battalion, so of course the yakuza had no chance against a trained, experienced unit of men who had been to real war.
Next Crime History video: Blood Gangs Crip Gangs Green Dragons Latin Kingz Chinese Triads Italian and Russian Mafias Boni and Clyde Real life Leather Face Asiong Salonga Edit: Im a Filipino so I mention Asiong Salonga
I've met guys who are in the Yakuza. The son had the tattoos and his father was there with him. They were hanging out with a friend of mine and he just wanted to go out late and go clubbing and play video games. They're fine. I never learned about his family or anything. Just got to see his awesome tattoo and play video games with him. The detail they do on those tattoos is amazing! Very beautiful. His father was very polite and very smart. Didn't know they were Yakuza until they went back to Japan. Friend called and told me. I honestly didn't think anything of it. Same as all people, treat them with respect and they will treat you with respect.
Imagine if all of the yakuza knew how to fight, like in the Yakuza games by Sega. It would be utter chaos, a somewhat better alternative than to just shoot everyone And finally... the Yakuza in the 80's were some wild times, both real life and in the game.
If you guys are into Yakuza, check out the films of Takeshi Kitano. They're not necessarily historically accurate, but he's a genius director who makes memorable films about tough Yakuza guys. Some of them are even "arthouse" films.
So you're telling me they don't breakdance during fist fights, sing sad karaoke, or race toy cars?
Everything I knew up to this point was a lie
they drive fancy cars doe, Im a car enthusiast yeah.
dame da ne moment
NOT FUNNY DIDNT LAUGH
Also call ugly ladies on the telephone club lmao
DingBoinka Jenga at least the real estate and construction part was right though
What Simple History taught me:
1. If someone's face looks detailed, they're probably important
2. Actual History
haha important person in the history = gets ears and a nose
I didn't notice point 1 until you pointed it out, but now I'm not quite sure whether I should be bothered or not.
@@Simplehistory thanks for giving me some spam
Lol
@@Simplehistory No wonder Krillin from Dragonball doesn't have a nose; he's not really important when compared with Vegeta and Goku. 😂
Take note that all of the Yakuza games by Sega were all approved by the actual Yakuza
That is interesting
For realsies??
Arigato kyodai...😀
Yes, because real Yakuza beat each other to death with traffic cones & punch tigers in the face.
@@bluekewne Could be they got feed back on history and tattoos, also the code they follow.
fun fact : when the first president of Indonesia visiting Japan,the Japanese government refused to give escort to the president. after that the president hired Yakuza to do their escort.
Wait? For real?
At first i thought this is fake, but damn it is real
@@thecat293 crazy right🤯
Now hold up, you telling me Mr Sukarno hires Yakuzas for his visit in Japan when the president of Japan at the time refuse to give him an escort? HOW DIDN'T I LEARNED THIS MY HISTORY LESSON? I'M INDONESIAN I'M SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT BUT I DIDN'T
@@spaghettiman7108 okee(gw bales pake b.indo ya) jadu tahun 58 pak sukarno mau kejepeang, nah terus di Jepang tuh ada rumor kalo ada kelompok anti sukarno sudah masuk jepang. nah pas tau itu beliau meminta pengawalan kepada polisi jepang,tapi mereka menolak alasannya pak sukarno dianggap melakukan kunjungan tidak resmi. nah pas tau begitu org kepercayaan sukarno kolonel sambas atmadinata menghubungi temannya (org jepang) di masa perang, temannya ini memberi saran untuk menyewa pengawal pribadi yaitu yakuza.
Trivia:
The children's show "Bob the Builder" had to be revised in Japan. In the UK and US versions, Bob had 4 fingers. In Japan, the humans were made to have 5 fingers instead of 4, as a man having 4 fingers indicates their membership with the Yakuza. It's part of Japanese culture and society at the time.
Bob had a hardcore youth he isnt proud of.
Wowww????
So Bob is a sacred retired yakuza
What about the Simpsons?
Bob was once a feared Yakuza Lieutenant, but he made a mistake and retired, becoming a builder rather than cutting his pinky finger.
Fun fact about Yakuza’s tattoos: This tradition originates from back before Meiji years when the criminals were tattooed about their crimes each time they were brought in to jails.
It was to make it impossible for them to fully reenter society, too
Oh really? That's interesting. The only Meiji I know is the food company.
Jeremiah Gottwald Yep, Meiji Restoration.
So just like Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds
Jeremiah Gottwald that company has been around for ages makes some of my favorite snack growing up
Not a gamer but YAKUZA games are some of the best games I’ve ever played
Gamer here. Can confirm. YAKUZA is fantastic in general
It is i started playing zero in march and im addicted to it and i played a lot of games
This is real life son!
Since your not a gamer, i guess you dont have alot of games to compare to
gamer here, Yakuza games is simply fantastic and engaging.
I'm Japanese and I want you to note:
The term "YAKUZA" is very humiliating to those people. They never use that word to refer to themselves. They prefer to call themselves "GOKUDO".
I'll remember that. You know... just in case.
What does Gokudo mean, by the way?
Yeah what does it mean?
Good question. Let me try to explain.
1. DO means way of something like judo, kendo, bushido, etc.
2. GOKU means extreme or ultimate, so literally GOKUDO is way of extreme, or way of ultimate. Make sense, I hope? Anyway its a word to express their pride being outlaw.
3. Usage is a bit different from other -DO terms, like practice kendo or exercise, judo. GOKUDO refers to certain type or grope of people, used like We are GOKUDO, he is a GOKUDO, or I'm a wife of GOKUDO.
Hope it helps.
@@Geofuturisticswag "extreme path" or "wicked" according to wiki
10:45 that was a long pause when you were expecting more dialogue.
lol yah
For real. 😂
yeah i tought my internet had just went off or something, pretty strange.
I think it's so they could get the ad revenue possibly
I was waiting for a explosion or something
I've had several run-ins with the Yakuza, but they leave me alone now after I destroyed one of their HQs and beat their boss in a 1v1 sword fight.
I did this too, i nearly got beat, but then i believed in the Power of Friendship and won
@@nutzungsbedingungen2246
It almost feels unfair to use something that powerful.
Hoho I fought 5 guys with guns and I only had a sword
wtf is this comment section-
I love it
@@murraytc4641 did you say family???
When you hear this narrators voice, *you know the video is going to be good.*
So true
Yep, Chris Kane is awesome
True
Yup
Indeed! 😁
*Me with a small heart tattoo on my hand*
"Can I enter the hot spring?"
*Japanese People* : YAKUZZAAAAAA!!!!!
If you ever go to Japan get ready for anime fights
Nah if you're not Asian they'll just awkwardly stare at you. I've never been turned away from an onsen
As far as I know, those baths are offering plasters to cover small tattoos.
They mostly understand small tattoos with foreigners.
You mispelled KUZEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
A Friend sent this on our group chat, our Japanese friend answered: "Me and the boys"
Yeah you may want to be nice to him
As a Japanese I have to tell you if we says it we do it
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Imagine being a rapper visiting Japan and trying to go to a hot spring
There are quite a few that accept tattoos now. Due to increasing tourism a turnaround is in the works :)
Some allow them but some definitely dont. My mate had to put a covers over his 3 or 4 tatts before he was allowed in to the onsen.
frank ocean mentions this on chanel
Imagine having a kuudere as ur pfp
I have tattoos want to see them
In 2011, March 11, When an Earthquake and Tsunami hit Tokyo and Kobe Regions in Japan; The Yakuza managed to send out goods faster than the government.
Edit: Changed typhoon to tsunami and earthquake. Given more information.
And also they maintain security and reorganize the area right after the catastrophe.
@Adriel R Don't owe them money and not pay them back. Same with any Mafia. That's the #1 rule when dealing with organized crime.
Yakuza are a group of Robin hood
Yeah and they also traffic humans
@Mateo Hodge Yah, that's probably accurate. Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
Your not a true Yakuza member until you sing Baka Mitai at a Karaoke bar after beating up some drunk hooligans near an empty lot
DAME DAME DAMEYO
Joe Pesci Rage *DAME DA NE
@Yoga
anta ga... suki de suki sugite
@@potatoyumyum1991 dore dake tsuyoi osake de mo
@@laoprxnce yugamanai omoide ga
When I lived in Kobe a few years ago, there was a civil war over some secession crisis or whatever in the Yamaguchi-gumi that made it all over the news. Apparently this led to the group splitting in two, but I don't know if they made up. My friend lived near a particularly nice neighborhood that she suspected had a lot of Yakuza residences and during this time, there was a drive-by on one of those residences. No, there weren't mass shootouts in the streets between rival factions. They were pretty discreet about it all.
Interesting fact. The Yakuza made the news one year for holding a Halloween event for where kids can go trick-or-treating at their HQ. They've been doing it for over a decade.
gui bin Huh, I wouldn’t expect the Yakuza to be letting kids Trick or Treat at their HQ.
Would the parents even allow the kids to go to their hq
@@vaultboy1086 It's probably part of their PR strategy. At least that's what we all suspect. It's pretty well known that Yakuza membership has been declining over the years, and they want to repair that image. I don't know if they're still doing it. They stopped in 2017 and I haven't heard anything about them starting back up.
@@gibfeet8992 Apparenty enough to justify them continuing it for a decade. The parents would be with the kids.
@referral madness most of their HQs look like many other ordinary office buildings in Japan, it doesn't look shady unless you know what it is.
Btw, recently, yakuza has been opening up boba tea shops as one of the ways to make income as well as adapting to the new age.
“I do surgery on Yakuza boss but mistake, yakuza boss die”
Shadow Shadow i good surgeon! The best!
"I come to America become surgeon's assistant: my secret was not mistake, I kill on purpose. I am best surgeon in world"
Pinky...
Good reference
Yes
Me at 3AM in the morning: yeh I wanna learn about the Yakuza
That’s why I’m here
It's literally 3.14 àm here
It’s literally what I’m doing rn
why at 3AM lol
Literally me wtf
Who wins:
A weeb with power of anime and hentai
or
A guy in blacksuit without a pinky and armed with an uzi
Weeb with power of anime and hentai
Cuz we're innocents
@@izakireemsi2783 nah, we'll die.
Weeb cuz they will throw gang signs at you and the next thing you know a ball of energy is hurling torwards you
A guy with no pinkie and uzie
Uzi
When I was a teacher's aide a few years back, in a classroom of Japanese exchange students age 19-20, I had this one kid who was for sure Yakuza.
He had spiked, bleached hair, and I always saw him outside our classroom smoking. He had no friends. He would always wear long sleeves, and when his collar slipped I saw that he had a full body suit of tattoos. Finally, when I asked him what he wanted to do as a career, all he would say was "I will work for my father's business".
Sure he wasn't just edgy? I mean why would a kid who wants to join the Yakuza go to another country as an exchange student?
To gain connections
@@anameofsomesort959 Safety and to gain connections.
I seen a few in san diego.one Taking criminal justice classes and one in business class. Tuff respectful and didn't associate with the hipster college crowd
On west coast in California and I think new York they are there I think
"In Japan. Heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yukaza boss need new heart. I do operation, but mistake! Yukaza boss die! Yukaza very mad! I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yukaza boss on purpose. I good surgeon, the best!"
This is the kind of content that we want
Darryl save life indees
Hide: bush no make paper!!!
Pam: shut up hide!!!
Ha
Goat show
You failed to mention that the Yakuza played a huge role in maintaining social stability during the post-WWII period when the feudal government was rendered useless, and the nation's pride and masculinity destroyed by the nuclear bombs. People looked to these "criminals" to settle neighbourly disputes and maintain basic security.
So they become cops
This real or a dialogue from Yakuza 5?
@@alphacreature6121 It's real even without the games. How do you think the bubble economy happened in the first place despite Japan being nuked.
Fat man and little boy didn't destroy the whole damn island, your blemishing abit my guy
@@redred1952 lmk when your nation has had two of its main cities nuked
Yakuza is gangsta until they get tiger dropped by a man in a white suit
Don't forget "He never killed anyone"
DAME DA NE
Kiryuuuuu-Chaaaaannn!!!
sauce now
*Random man with an eye patch*
_"Kiryu-chan..."_
Imagine the Chinese Triads at war with the Yakuza, its like ww2 in the shadows.
imagine if one of those yakuza members are descendants of unit 731
It happened in Tokyo in the early 2000s...messy and lots of bodies, massively under reported.
Add the Italian Mafia
Triads is kind of not that organized like Yakuza
@@rowbearly6128 How this war was called ?
They also have a propensity for ripping off their shirts and fighting on top of buildings. Pretty weird.
Don’t forget about how they also get enveloped in a flaming aura too. Must be part of the Yakuza’s training.
KIRYUUUU CHANNNNNNN!
I heard some chairmen fought there.
Always learn something on your channel, thanks!
Hay phuc map I watch your videos
@@hoangho6781 cảm ơn bro
Ok co gi
Ok co gi
Ko co gì
Nintendo started off as a company that made these gambling cards
Yes and no. Nintendo produced hanafuda card decks which are to make comparisons are a lot like our standard 52 card decks in which many games can be played with them not just one. So Nintendo made cards that were more than likely used for gambling but not explicitly for.
Nintendo secretly a yakuza clan
@@dimasnaufalpratama4812 How do you think they have copyright ninjas everywhere? :P
Top 10 anime character development
No, it became popular after the video game crash because they were ruthless and didn't let retail stores sell the nes if they're selling competing products.
Also, the '83 crash only happened in north amerika, everywhere else was fine.
Did you know that the most committed members of the Yakuza have the backs of their knees tattooed which is the most painful part of the body to have a tattoo.
Ok
is it worse than the inside of your upper arm, close to he armpit, down?
jessin rodenburg the back of the knee is probably the worst spot because there are a bunch of nerves there
Makes sense, since getting shot in the kneecap is apparently the most painful place to be hit.
Ok
While stationed in Okinawa, we were told that anyone with tattoos where prohibited from entering public beaches as they were automatically assumed to be Yakuza. Even if you weren’t Asian. Sometimes we’ll spot Yakuza hanging out by casinos and bars too. Crazy times on Oki.
There was a man in Hawaiian shirt who has tattoos allegedly and runs an orphanage
@@theunbeatable6598 Orphanage Manager
I thought the Yakuza boss was killed by a heart surgeon who fled to hide in America and became a warehouse worker.
I am Japanese!
Yakuza is a terrifying existence in my country.
is it really a day to day topic? are your people afraid of these gangs? i would like to know because in some parts of this world there are gangs in countrys but people of normal society dont really care about them or are not really affected by their actions
Is it really true that they employ chicken as manager for their business?
@@Flollo420 i don't think yakuza is a gang. They surely won't beat you up and take your wallet. In Italy, a certain Sicilian city happened to be where some powerful banks took roots (because of Renaissance history), well, in that city the mafia makes everything in its power to give national police no reason to come and pay a visit, they keep pickpockets at bay and if they need to fight they do it elsewhere. I guess there must be similar situations in japan
I’m Hong Kong Chinese and we had scarier gang than yakuza
420 no no one talks about yakuza here. You don’t even hear about it on the news. They are irrelevant in normal society and they don’t want attention either so they stay relatively hidden
Whenever you realize Simple History teaches you more history than your online classes.
*mindblown*
I don’t even do history in online classes anymore
it’s just English and Math
sometimes the online classes rely on simple history to teach academics.
I don’t have any classes, I am a lucky one who has summer break earlier than others
And offline
Japanese uncle: Okay i'll stay out of your room
9 year old me: Pinky swear?
Uncle:
Is that a hentai reference?
@@leecupp2573 did you not watch the video?
Maybe it is a reference to hentai 🤷♂️
@@fuckinantipope5511 he doesnt mean the pinky part, he means the weird rapey uncle that wont leave part
LAW AND ORDER SVU
**DUN - DUN - DUN - DUN**
A well-meaning doc but a few big inaccuracies here: Quite a few Yakuza members are ethnic Korean, but ethnic Koreans are NOT Burakumin. Ethnic Koreans (Zainichi) along with Burakumin, both form a major chunk or the Yakuza ranks, but they are different from each other. Burakumin are a severely socially discriminated ethnic group that traces their ancestries to medieval peasants who had undesirable jobs that were considered unclean, like butchers or undertakers.
Modern Yakuza also don't trace their lineage to the medieval-era peddlers and gambling establishments. Those were simply their 200 year-old counterparts. Modern Yakuza all trace their beginnings to war-torn Japan of the late 1940's, where poverty was rampant and there was an economic vacuum that placed the Yakuza in power.
Modern Yakuza might be the second generation of Yakuza. First was result of Meiji-restauration which broke down old social order and left many samurai penniless so they became criminals.
@@firecattle With that classification line between second and third generation is quite blurry while first and second have much clearer separation. If I remember correctly yakuza got their name from gambling term similar to "seven high" and former samurai were hired by gambling groups as enforcers and thus formed first generation. Quite interesting anomaly in organized crime.
Brits: "Pinkies out"
Yakuza: *Hold my tea.*
You gotta be kidding me.
*noice*
The legend is here bois
Oooook
WTF THIS IS THE 5TH TIME IMMA SEEING YOU!!!
Italian Mafia Member: So here is the dea...
Yakuza: so anyways I started blastin
That would be the Russian mafia tho.
People who play yakuza: My time to shine!!
Baka mitai intensifies
Ah, a fellow Yakuza fan. Another man of culture i might say
Nani
Such a good series
Kiryu-chan!!!!
Don't forget that every couple years or so the head of the whole clan fucks up somehow, ends up in a coma or goes missing and an angry looking dude in a grey suit has to beat the rest of the clan into submission to stop them from overthrowing the current chairman while he's indisposed.
The dude wears grey? Thought he wore white.
does he have a fan with an eyepatch?
@@garrysucks4190 it's a light grey
*Yakuza gets mentioned*
Most people: That’s the Japanese mafia right?
Me: Kiryuuu chaaaan!
Majima san
Same lol. Whenever I hear Yakuza all I can think of is the games.
Dame Dane
I'm both of them
You're screaming Mechagodzilla?
Italian mafia
Japanese mafia
*1**#tiger** mafia from who killed captain alex*
TIGER MAFIA
nice to see someone else who watched that.
They know the way of using a gun (Unless Bruce U is around).
How are you everywhere edge lord?
The most deadliest gang in Uganda
@@gorogorogoro-chan5656 The entire world you mean.
You forgot to add the part where every year a guy in a gray suit comes around and wrecks all of them.
Kiryuuuu-chan
And a shirtless one eyed fellow yakuza stalks him
Huh?
8:13 Why tf is Obama in the gun fight?
That's where he went after his presidency.
Imagine...under his suits there’s been a full body tattoo this whole time 😐
😳😳😳
It's what he does in his free time
Good ol' Obama always getting himself in armed conflicts
When you are Japanese and you find out you are 1%
I'm going to go join the Yakuza join the Yakuza.
Now go get your f*cking shinebox
Must suck if a guy finds out he's half Japanese and half Sicilian.
I mean who you gonna join? the Yakuza or Cosa Nostra?
Gang-Star
@@OnionChoppingNinja what if they combine?
“”They (yakuza) were often descended from Burakumin, an ethnic Korean background””
Me, a Korean living in Japan: * 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗹𝘆 *
[the yakuza wants to know your location]
_you know what you must do now_
How it to live in japan? Do you like it?
Raven, that is very true, but the majority of Yakuza here have some kind of Okinawan/Korean background, whether it be a mother or a whole family.
Mr.K, I am a Zainichi of course I know this. Burakumin are not exclusive to Koreans, but Koreans were considered Burakumin.
"Videogames cannot be part of Mafia!"
SEGA: *observe.*
(Yakuza series reference)
and playing the series, it annoys me when westerners mispronounce the words/names and titles
*Insert Pledge of Demon here*
Penis music
@@hestiashearth478 oh shut up you japan fetishist
*The Mafia games*: am I a joke to you?
Thanks!
thank you
Xenophon Alexandrou
Who's cooler
Italian mafia:
Japanese mafia:
Can you do a video on the Irish war for independence
I support
But who really are more powerful? European or Asian Mafias?
Italian
Guys he is Freedom
The Yakuza is far more powerful today.
Fun Fact : Back when Nintendo was just a small business that used to sell Hanafuda cards, their biggest customers were the Yakuzas
Really? Is that true?
@@MasonKLutz yes!
Japan: *We can’t deal with the Yakuza*
Mexico: *Hold our cartels*
Haha
Did you see how many obamas were in the Yakuza clips? They got the n word pass
Philippines: Hold our New People's Army (NPA)
@@osamabinladen824 wait a min 😃😄🤨😐😶
@@osamabinladen824 And don't forget Abu Sayyaf
Yakuza before: Japenese Mafia which are feared
Yakuza now: Haha Dame Da ne go brrrrrrrrrrrrr
yes
very cringe
and also: haha overhaul go brrr
@@lol-hn9ik HahaHa Kpop go brrrrr
Haha majima go brrr
It's funny, I just started to play the Yakuza series as of recent and the fact this just recently came out only 3 days after I started is awesome.
Dude same
Into the 1980s, the Japanese people who drove American cars: Gangsters and dentists.
Where's the tattoo's artists?
@@Kimrothmony They cannot afford cars in Japan?
In america toyota ae86 shitbox grorious piece of machinery for 90k
In Japan glorious V8 gas guzzling pos shitbox for 90k
*goes to top of Millennium Tower*
*dramatically rips off shirt, revealing bare back and tattoo*
(For who’s sake starts playing in the background)
*NISHIKAYAMA FAMILY PARTRIARCH*
*AKIRA NISHIKIYAMA*
*HAKUHO CLAN CHAIRMAN*
*YOSHITAKA MINE*
*MEN IN BLACK*
*SIXTH CHAIRMAN OF THE TOJO CLAN*
*DAIGO DOJIMA*
You: _Betrays Yakuza_
Yakuza: *_D A M E D A N E ~_*
Dame yo
Nishiki be like
Tojo Clan has a traitor every year
Simple History: *Makes Yakuza video*
The Yakuza: We would like to know your location.
Yakuzas don't bother those who don't screw with them and meddle in their affairs (that or if you're a corrupt government figure).
Certain Mexican cartels and South American criminal syndicates however....
@@SoldierOfFate
As a Latin American, I can confirm that.
“For as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a yakuza.”
Yeah same..🖖😅
Yes! I too love laundering money and selling illegal weapons.
Is this a reference to goodfellas?
Goodfellas bro!
🎶 MUST I FOREVER BE A BEGGAR 🎶
A movie recommendation: The Outsider
It’s on Netflix and shows practically all of the things that this video has shown
Fungus TheTurd thank🙂
Obrigada
Yeah that was a fun movie!
Fungus TheTurd I actually liked that movie, it was interesting
Yakuza guys are super chill. Shared a beer with a few of them once. Everyone in that town knew they were yakuza, but no one really cared.
Image teaching more history than schools
This post was made by simple history gang
True comment, I actually learnt more in here than school lmao
OMG are you the real Obi Wan Kenobi??
Obi Wan....
We meet again
Count Dooku don’t worry. He’s not the one you need to worry about.
Yakuza: "We are very powerful"
Agent 47: "Hold my beer"
Gotta admit..the fat guy had one nice place
Yame Yame
Johnny sins
Yeah,47 can destroy an entire criminal organization.
HAHAHA HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL COMMENT NEVER SAW A COMMENT LIKE THIS BEFORE
Who would win?
*The entire Japanese Yakuzas in their full powers*
Or
One Ex-Arrow shooter hero who's family just became dust
one arrow boi
Green Arrow?
@@sturmtiger1508 avengers endgame reference
@@sturmtiger1508 he went against the triad tho;
@@Grimlock_king85
Ooohhh right, that scene
Fun fact: Yakuza are also known to use traffic cones, tables, sofas and motorcycles to fight
cringing Rn dude legit forgot to list their main weapon of bycicle how ignorant
When I was this early, people were spamming “first.”
Thien Nguyen Mình Xinh Chào Nha!
first
that... is me
@ Thien Nguyen , When I came there we’re no comments that TH-cam allowed me to see so I just said first
Komrade Dog im vietnamese too
I thought all the Yakuza did was helping Dominatrixes with their work and returning stolen video games to children and such.
yakuza 0 is cool but I prefer yakuza 5
There is an ex-yakuza out there called Kazuma Kiryu". He was known as "The Dragon of Dojima" in his clan. He left the clan and now he's known as "karaoke dragon" in japan.
LOL
1:37 Yo, big ups for actually taking the time to draw those kabufuda/hanafuda cards reliably. I appreciate the attention to detail
This has been one of my favorite videos on this channel. I really enjoy learning about crime syndicates like the Yakuza
Tfw you have no fingers when you leave the gang
F
I wonder if you get them back if you leave. Lol
Justin Bury free snack
@@plutune6602 finally some good fricking food
Tiago Borges gives a whole new meaning to finger food
Yakuza are still prevelant in today's Japan. I was just a year ago on an exchange in Japan and I remember how we needed to walk in groups from at least 5 to the train station as somebody who looked like Yakuza had been spotted near the school. I didn't see the person but there were at least 3 police cars on the way as we walked.
4:09 that's definitely kazama shintaro and masaru Sera having a good time
Bubble era was sweet for them
XD it totally does look like them too now that you point it out.
Kiryuuuuu-Chaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!
桐生ちゃ〜〜〜〜〜ん！！！！！
YES
Lol 😂
Everyone gangster until kazuma kiryu shows up
KIRYU CHANNNNNNNNNNNNNN
I heard that the yakuza also put together little fairs with food stalls and games for kids and families to come to
Probably to improve theit image, they've been cracked on
4:22 dudes acting gangsta until kiryu shows up and hit them with bicycles and traffic cones
I expected Kiryu being stalked by Majima but this is fine, too 😂
With some of the places Majima jumped out of, you'd expect that he'd have the power to go beyond the game.
What is the best anime?
Google : Naruto
Bing:
You misspelled Dragon Ball Z...
@@isaacb5968 silence, anime watcher
@@slimeguy3437 Lmao
lol normies
Weebs
Fast and Furious Tokyo makes sense now
😂
I love these bite sized history videos. So fun to throw on and learn
1:34 damn obama really changed After the quarantine
lmao
Lol
What were you thinking man🤣
He lost the n pass
Ah yes the Yakuza
Also well known for their ability to run down the walls of buildings and throw down millions of knives infused with lightning
They also never killed anyone
Or turning into a tiger.
7:55 and so the Dojima story begins...
more like tojo clan
When suddenly the Kuze theme song plays in background..
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN?!
Always wanting to learn about history
Simple History always delivers
I want to know the result when a Mafia, Yakuza, Triads, then an entire Police Force battle each other
Then go watch Nisekoi.
well the mafia, yakuza and triads better hope the police wins (which by the way, they would realistically), because the national guard will begin a hunting season for them if the police were to be wiped out
@@antoniodelaugger9236 last thing they want is a whole army hunting them.
@@antoniodelaugger9236 Japan doesn't have National Guards.
@@radjadawamindra697 They have JSDF
Me When I hear Yakuza:
KIRYUUUU - CHANNN! (" A Wild Majima's like smile appears").
Sorry, I couldn't hold myself, it's stronger then me.
It's understandable,kyodai. You're not alone
KIRYUUUU - CHANNN!
Majima ni san
Yo......
KIIIIIIRRRRRYUUUU CHAAAAN
Heeeeey Boooooiiiii
This guy's pronunciation of foreign languages is genuinely impressive.
Meanwhile a certain Yakuza is singing -BakaMitai- how stupid he is in Karaoke
*DAME DA NE*
you are ahead of your time
Me watching this video
Goro Majima: "KIRYUUU CHAN!"
You’re channel really teaches me a bunch of stuff that I would normally share with my friends (at school) but I can’t do that since Corona
Like Communism sucks?
3:50 What is Psy doing in my Yakuza Documentary?
yeah and PSY is not a japanese too
Psy Korea sus
Next video: russian mafia
Next next video: Yakuza vs russian mafia
Next next next video: Who's the strongest mafia in the world
Yakuza vs Russian mafia is basically the plot of one of Black Lagoon manga arc, as for the result, let's just say the Russian mafia goes all Spetsnaz on the Yakuza's.
If you watch the program about traveling "Inside out" where the reporter was able to talk with the right hand of the boss Yakuza in Tokyo, they talked about the similarities between the Russian Mafia and the Japanese. As a result, the Japanese are more traditionalist and Hierarchical, the Russian Mafia was more of a "gang's" because of anarchy of 90s. The post-soviet people, who understood how naive the Russians were, took advantage of this position to rob even the poor people in young and weak Russian Federation, those with whom they had studied and worked at the factory just yesterday. These were vile people who became hostages of the situation and forced them to take such a path of bloody bandit, while they also became those who supported this situation. Simply put, a certain ouroboros of chaos and misfortune.
In clothes, they differed more. The Russian mafia was divided into a kind of unspoken hierarchy. At first, the bandits were "gopniks", street thugs and thieves. Then, they became “sixes”, already under the wing of a particular group, performing what they could be thugs. Later they became "thieves." From clothes, at first it was Adidas training suits, then jeans and leather jackets, and then expensive suits.
The bandits drove used cars from Germany and the cars of late USSR, the "younger" bandits drove a VAZ-2109, as it was called a "chisel", those who had a little more money drove a Volvo 940 "swede", then the Mercedes W124 "wolf", BMW E34 "shark", BMW E38 "bumer", Mercedes W140 "boar", Toyota Land Cruiser 80 "jap or cruise", Mitsubishi Pajero "tank or mitsu", Jeep Grand Cherokee "Just Jeep". There was a funny story with these cars. Because of this Jeep, many, many years later, any crossover or SUV was called (Jeep). BMW was a car a little lower in class than a Mercedes, it was used by (thugs) in disassembly due to its speed, it is more aggressive, it was even given an alternative name in Russian "Fighting Vehicle of Thieves" "Boevaya Machina Vorov". BMW have since called "Bumer", and Mercedes called "Merin" or "Merce". And these cars were firmly entrenched with thieves, corrupt officials or bandits. Especially if they are black and have "expensive license plates."
Later, the smarter and possibly meaner of "mafia" betrayed their comrades, began to cooperate with the police or bribe them for freedom, and became government officials. So this is not a joke, many in the government of the Russian Federation, former criminals, fraudsters, thieves, deceivers and so on. So technically, the Mafia has achieved what they wanted. Many Mafia want the police and lawyers to be on their side. But in Russia it turned out that now they don’t pay them. For they are their superiors...
@@radjadawamindra697 That's not really a fair comparison, frankly. Hotel Moscow aren't really mafiya, they are a literal former Airborne Infantry battalion, so of course the yakuza had no chance against a trained, experienced unit of men who had been to real war.
Next Crime History video:
Blood Gangs
Crip Gangs
Green Dragons
Latin Kingz
Chinese Triads
Italian and Russian Mafias
Boni and Clyde
Real life Leather Face
Asiong Salonga
Edit: Im a Filipino so I mention Asiong Salonga
MS-13?
Chinese triads probably, there the biggest one
Georgian also needs to be in here
And also Pablo Escobar and the Mendelin Cartel
@@heckaboo Damn, you play Azur Lane?
Me who plays the Yakuza games: Hmm Interesting.
The cup on the right moves at 5:18, thought we wouldn't notice!
I've met guys who are in the Yakuza. The son had the tattoos and his father was there with him. They were hanging out with a friend of mine and he just wanted to go out late and go clubbing and play video games. They're fine. I never learned about his family or anything. Just got to see his awesome tattoo and play video games with him. The detail they do on those tattoos is amazing! Very beautiful. His father was very polite and very smart. Didn't know they were Yakuza until they went back to Japan. Friend called and told me. I honestly didn't think anything of it. Same as all people, treat them with respect and they will treat you with respect.
Unless you owe them money
So this is actually a japanese John Wick.
lmao thought tha same
Plot twist, they kill using chopsticks
Except they are at a one massive group of john wicks
9:10
Reminds me of John Wick 3
This comment is so underrated
Imagine if all of the yakuza knew how to fight, like in the Yakuza games by Sega.
It would be utter chaos, a somewhat better alternative than to just shoot everyone
And finally... the Yakuza in the 80's were some wild times, both real life and in the game.
Yakuza : beating people to death
Also yakuza : "Dame da ne, dame yo dame nano yo"
If you guys are into Yakuza, check out the films of Takeshi Kitano. They're not necessarily historically accurate, but he's a genius director who makes memorable films about tough Yakuza guys. Some of them are even "arthouse" films.