The yogurt – the mafia her Japanknown for blackmail, prostitution, gun possession and drug trafficking – it even causes terror to listen.
Now, do we count down for the beginning of its end? Japan’s largest criminal trade union pledged to end his long -term war with an opposing faction and to It is away from the ‘problems’ challengethe authorities said, as mafia groups decimate police repression.
Three Yamaguchi-Gumi executives, The largest “wing” of Yakuza visited the Headquarters of the Chongo Police on Monday (07.04.2025), where they submitted a letter to police officers with whom pledged to ‘terminate all internal disputes’ and’ never cause problems“, Police told CNN.
Yamaguchi-Gumi, one of the largest and richest criminal gangs in the world, has been involved in bloody controversy with segregation groups since 2015, when More than twelve factions were separated to form Cobe Yamagucci-Goumy.
Since then, the growing violence between the two warring criminal organizations has led to a “civil” war with opposing gangster groups.
The armed conflict, often burst into public roads in cities in central and western Japan, It puts pressure on the authorities to tighten the restrictions on the gangs.
In 2020, police officially described Yamaguchi-Gumi and its secession team as gangs in war-enabling police officers to increase surveillance, limit their activities, including banning their offices and raising capital.
«Their conflicts have become serious and unpredictable“, The National Police Service said in 2021. In the past five years, Police have set many other close -up gangs.
It is not clear whether the rival secession team, Kobe Yamaguchi-Gumi, has responded to a ceasefire promise. Police said it would “closely monitors the movements of both groups“, As the statement on ending the gang war can be one -sided.
Group members Yakuza all over Japan have been reduced in recent decades. In 2024, the number of members of organized crime unions rose to 18,800, marking a low record and falling for the first time below 20,000, According to police data.
These official figures show that the number of active members of the Yamaguchi-Gumi gang has been reduced by almost half since 2014-from 6,000 then fell to just 3,300 at the end of last year. The Kobe Yamaguchi-Gumi gang had about 120 members last year.
The term Yakuza in Japanese means “8-9-3” (Y-Ku-Za). It is about Worst sheet in Japanese game Hannah Kountaequivalent to Black Jack, in which the player is called upon to win 19 to win. So anyone who was pulling 20 lost. The term gradually began to mean ‘apocalypse’