Gangster arrested over dispatch of workers for Fukushima clean-up

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  • 7

    jerobeam

    "The yakuza has engaged in activities from gambling, drugs and prostitution to loan sharking, protection rackets, white-collar crime and business conducted through front companies." and ** "The gangs, which are not illegal, have historically been tolerated by the authorities"**

    I have strong difficulties reconciling both statements. Are gambling, drugs, prostitution, loan sharking, protection rackets and white-collar crime not illegal? something to be tolerated??

  • 1

    sighclops

    Colour me surprised!!!!!

  • 0

    Yubaru

    40 years old and a senior member? Dude must have been on the career fast track.

  • 4

    tokyo-star

    Jerobeam, can't you read? The gangs themselves are not illegal - the activities that they are involved are. It's the same as torrenting - the protocol isn't illegal, the files you might download most likely are.

  • 1

    GW

    tokyostar,

    Yes & no, technically gambling, prostitution etc are illegal BUT since the govt & keystones do next to NOTHING about most of this it is IN FACT quasi-legal & about a close to encouraging illegal activity as you can get.

    The bottom line is it should be brutally easy for authorities to rack up mountains of evidence of illegal activity itself, more mountains of the account type. BUT THEY DO NOT, they let it all happen in plain sight

  • -4

    basroil

    jerobeamFeb. 02, 2013 - 09:13AM JST

    I have strong difficulties reconciling both statements. Are gambling, drugs, prostitution, loan sharking, protection rackets and white-collar crime not illegal? something to be tolerated??

    Justice system is broken because the cops actually believe gangsters are a necessary evil to keep down crime. If other places with major crime groups is to be a model, it should be NYC, where crime actually dropped a huge amount when they got rid of most organized crime, and kept the others under tight surveillance.

    It's actually funny how some comments on another fukushima workers disappeared for saying it was the work of gangsters, and it turns out that it was all true.

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    Ranger_Miffy2

    Only sent three men? Surely many more. And will this be the only arrest from the entire 3/11-TEPCO debacle?

  • 0

    Ewan Huzarmy

    Arai allegedly dispatched three men to Fukushima to work on clean-up crews in November, he said

    Yeah, come on ......and the rest !

  • 2

    JoshuYaki

    Honestly it would take a Yakuza to commit men to thier future miserably slow cancerous deaths by cleaning up that mess.. The government could hire every recruiting company in the country but essentially they would be signing the death sentence for every worker.

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    smithinjapan

    Only in Japan are the mafia not illegal despite engaging in almost entirely illegal activities. No doubt in this case Arai was handed to them on a silver platter and with full confession or they would not have moved at all. One guy arrested for what is undoubtedly rampant in the clean-up activities.

  • -1

    Open Minded

    Without the yakuza and their coercive ways of hiring people, Japan will need to import workforce to clean up this mess. I doubt this is the government's wish.

  • 3

    cramp

    let's see...so who exactly is not taking advantage of the tsunami incident to get rich?

    seems like from govt down, everyone's coming for payday

  • -4

    basroil

    Police have arrested a high-ranking yakuza over claims he sent workers to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant for the clean-up without a license.

    The only issue here is a paperwork issue, regardless of how much people want to cover up the article with their own misinformed ideas.

  • -3

    blendover

    How come yakusa can't go into gyms with their tats, but they are allowed to do this kind of coersive labour market stuff by the nuclear industry? Who cares if he didn't have the right documents?. They shouldn't be dealing with these kind of people at all. The nuclear industry is a disgrace.

  • -1

    nedinjapan

    If you have some experience with the legal system in Japan, you will realize they are 'conceptually' tuned with Yakuza. They both work based on intimidation, telling lies, and taking away innocent people's money. Sometimes they set up a show like this, but everything is simply about 'deception'.

  • -2

    AKBfan

    He sent people to help in clean up and they arrest him for it? Thisseems like an excuse for getting at him for some other issue.

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