As yakuza weaken, police focus shifts to unorganized crime hired via social media

As yakuza weaken, police focus shifts to unorganized crime hired via social media

What that division doing all day, really?

Known organized crime member, now already enter their retirement age, peacefully playing sports.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2023/02/10/more-sports/yakuza-softball-team/

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There's new crime that really emerge, that's the one people should aware.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/06/japan/crime-legal/tokuryu-explainer/

Pokémon cards were a huge thing for about 6 months last year with everyone trying to cash in on an internet rumor that a new card would be worth ¥300,000. Naturally the crime groups and foreign resellers tried to cash in too. You would see them paying people for boxes of cards or opening them on the street and tossing aside anything that wasn’t valuable. It was pretty pathetic lmao

now that’s over since the speculation market over played their hand and the Pokémon company has flooded retailers with boxes of cards as a countermeasure. Just a funny few months seeing these people trying to make a quick buck off Pokémon cards in 2024. Reminded me of being I elementary school when the series first started and the craze was out of control

sakurasuki, that url is behind Japan Times' paywall.

Disorganized crime seems easier to fight than organized.

The Tokyo metropolitan police are currently investigating six suspects in their 20s and 30s, most of them without connections to one another, who are believed to have been hired on social media to kill, transport and burn the bodies of an older couple at a riverbank of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture．

This is false, it's been on the news almost every morning. Most of the guys knew each other, but they did not have a strong connection, nor were members of a gang. And for sure there were not hired on social media.

I feel the china-nese & vietnamese Triads pose more of a danger to Japanese society.

They have no code of conduct or honor like the Yaks.

The law should also go after the former two.

A senior member of yakuza was arrested for allegedly stealing Pokemon cards near Tokyo in April...

Anyone else see the unintentional comedy in this? I'm trying to picture Tony Soprano doing it.

Pokemon cards in national news..

Proving again and again that Japan is one of the safest countries to live in the world..

Pokemon cards in national news.. 

Proving again and again that Japan is one of the safest countries to live in the world..

Yes, very safe for the large group of otaku.

Unorganized crime which was performed with organized criminals :)

in any group there should be the leader.

You would see them paying people for boxes of cards or opening them on the street and tossing aside anything that wasn’t valuable. It was pretty pathetic lmao

Sounds like those that bought dozens of AKB48 CDs just to get that golden ticket to meet them. Pathetic but pretty good marketing for the fiends lol

anonymous gangsters and tech-savvy young people hired for specific jobs, obscuring the boundary between them and the yakuza...

"tokuryuu" maybe a menace to society but the kanji (匿流) is a carefully crafted piece of work. 

i take it to mean "hidden rank" where what is concealed is a young person (若)

police must drastically change their anti-organized crime measures to keep up with the new menace

good luck!!

Totally anachronistic in this day and age - nobody should have any needs for yakuza or gangs of any description, they really should be finished now.

In rules-based Japan, almost everyone behaves reasonably, courteously, and considerately - this is all that anyone needs or expects here, and it's what makes Japan such a refreshingly different place to hang out in.

Disorganized crime seems easier to fight than organized.

Generally it leads to more violent crime. Organizations tend to use violence in very specific ways and often with permission and direction. Average gang isn't as forward thinking about the consequences.

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Generally it leads to more violent crime. Organizations tend to use violence in very specific ways and often with permission and direction. Average gang isn't as forward thinking about the consequences.

Exactly. Fundamentally, normal citizens on have to deal with the Mafia if they venture in to areas that the Mafia controls.