The recession affects the yakuza just like everyone else. They are losing investments in real estate and that means losing jobs as well. Just like the banks, they have loaned money to people who can no longer afford to pay them back.
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Jake Adelstein, an underworld authority and former crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun (GlobalPost.com)
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telecasterplayer
Looks like the wall street geniuses who crashed the economy will have to cut their pinkies off.
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SumoBob
Yes, but the regular banks don't make you work on a fishing boat to "pay off your debt", buy a life insurance policy on your behalf then conveniently "have you lost overboard" during a bout of bad weather...
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