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Japanese gangs have no home for the elderly, and they are helpless to deal with the problem of aging

Chen Haonan's way of fighting in the ancient perplexer and Liu Huaqiang's' is this melon ripe? ', In Jianghu children, Liao Fan takes his brother to worship Guan Gong & hellip& hellip; These pictures may constitute all our understanding of the 'gangs'. However, in Japan, the only country in the world that recognizes gangs as legal organizations, the Japanese gangs in real life are still very different from film and television works.

Compared with 'street gangsters', the operation mode of Japanese underworld is more like a' company ', and among about dozens of underworld organizations in Japan, the most well-known is the Yamaguchi group.

Yamaguchi group, the largest designated violent group in Japan, is also one of the most historical and large-scale Gang organizations in East Asia and even the world. Its main activities are in Kansai, Japan. It has a strong reputation in the gangs, and even gives people the illusion that the Japanese underworld is equal to the Yamaguchi group.

In 2015, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, according to the statistics of Fortune magazine, Yamaguchi group is one of the largest and most profitable Mafia organizations in the world, with an annual profit of about US $6.6 billion.

This' world-famous' gangster organization often makes headlines in the Japanese media because of various events, and some 'Legends' about Yamaguchi group are often scattered among the people: giving candy to children on Halloween, disaster relief, organizing public welfare and so on. Some media commented that they sometimes behave more like social welfare organizations.

'how could the gang do such a kind thing?' These people's "double favor" behavior is not compatible with the gangs themselves. But surprisingly, most of the legends of the Yamaguchi formation are true.

Catch up with fashion and join the upsurge of opening stores

This year, pearl milk tea has set off a frenzy in Japan, and milk tea shops in the streets have sprung up like bamboo shoots.

Come and join the fun. Naturally, there are gangs. According to Japanese media reports, after personally feeling the popularity of this beverage on the streets, gangsters have a strong interest in pearl milk tea and have invested in opening stores. Naturally, there is no lack of the 'gang leader' Yamaguchi group.

A gang member said: 'I've never seen a business with such fast money.' With the popularity of pearl milk tea, most members will invest in it as the main source of funds in the near future.

Giving candy to children on Halloween?

Every Halloween, Yamaguchi group will distribute snacks to children near its headquarters in Tanqu District, Kobe City. At the end of October this year, Yamaguchi group also went to the street to distribute sugar as usual.

According to relevant reports, Halloween has been popular in Japan for only about 10 years, but Yamaguchi group has held Halloween activities and distributed snacks since at least the 1980s. A reporter once investigated this. It turns out that the headquarters of Yamaguchi group is located in the high-grade residential area of Kobe City, and most of the residents are foreign consular officials. On Halloween, children who are not familiar with the world often come to the door. The third generation leader of Yamaguchi group, Yixiong Tiangang, was curious about this, so he asked his men to do some investigation. Since then, it has become the tradition of Yamaguchi group to prepare snacks on Halloween.

In 2015, due to the internal division of the organization, the Halloween activities of that year were forced to stop. Worried that the children who came to get sugar were sad, the members of Yamaguchi group kindly posted a notice saying: sorry for the children who are happy to come here (get sugar). We will continue to hold this activity next year. Please look forward to it-- Liudaimushankou formation headquarters

The next year, they did abide by the 'agreement' and began to distribute candy again.

Japanese gangs have no home for the elderly

Organize disaster relief

According to early data, after the Great Hanshin Shimbun earthquake in Japan, Yamaguchi group entered the disaster area earlier than the Japanese government through helicopters and speedboats, opened up material circulation channels, transported materials to the disaster area, and spontaneously launched rescue activities.

With the Yamaguchi group headquarters in Kobe City as the center, the group has provided dozens of shelters, provided materials free of charge, set up food stalls and provided food for tens of thousands of affected people in recent days.

During the magnitude 7 earthquake in Kumamoto in 2016, 'Kobe Yamaguchi Group' also actively carried out rescue activities in the disaster area, distributing towels, water, food, etc. on the site.

Local victims thanked these gangsters for their rescue and selfless dedication, and some people offered flowers to express their gratitude.

Do 'good deeds' but' everyone yells'?

In terms of the "good people and good deeds" done by the Yamaguchi group mentioned above, the folk evaluation of this gangster organization should not be low. However, contrary to their wishes, the Japanese people still have great resistance and disgust against them, and even organize demonstrations to protest.

When the Yamaguchi group made candy on Halloween, they marched in anti Gang clothes. According to Japan's daily news, local police sent a message to the parents of students in primary and secondary schools, reminding them not to let their children close to the Yamaguchi group headquarters and not to receive sugar. " It is entirely possible that these sweets were purchased with the proceeds of crime. "

On the streets of Japan, there are many shops that say they do not receive "violent groups", and many hot springs also say that "violent groups and tattoos are prohibited."

The public's aversion to gangs is also due to the numerous crimes of Japanese gangs.

On November 27, a senior member of the Kobe Yamaguchi group of the Japanese Mafia died after being shot in the street of nizaki City, Hyogo county. The police believe that the case is an internal struggle of Yamaguchi group. At present, the largest gangster in Japan has been divided into Yamaguchi group, Kobe Yamaguchi group and Renxia Yamaguchi group.

In recent months, Yamaguchi group has frequently made headlines in Japanese media due to attacks. In addition to internal fighting, gang members are also accused of taking part in stealing agricultural products and illegal fishing.

Previously, a former gang leader revealed in an interview that gangs in remote areas are facing business difficulties due to the migration of young people to big cities and the local economic downturn. One of the solutions is to steal crops during the harvest season.

With the strengthening of legal restrictions on gangs in Japan, gangs with traditional sources of income such as collection of protection fees, prostitution, usury, drug trafficking and underground gambling began to choose other ways of income, and illegal fishing is one of them. Researchers point out that gangs have been involved in the fishing industry for nearly a decade.

The "confrontation and resistance" that often occurs among Japanese gangs will inevitably hurt the innocent as the battle becomes more and more intense, which is a great threat to social stability. In 1980, the 'Yamaguchi resistance' broke out within the Yamaguchi group. During the gun battle, a woman working in a tavern was shot and killed. Therefore, for ordinary residents, places with gang members represent danger.

Japanese gangs have no home for the elderly

Aging, white hair crisis of Japanese gangs

The whole Japanese gangs, also affected by the aging of Japanese society, began their own post era middle-aged crisis.

With the strengthening of police crackdown and the change of people's attitude, the statistics of the Japanese police agency show that last year, the number of members of Japanese gangs has dropped to 30000. In the heyday of the 1960s, the number of Japanese gangsters once exceeded 180000.

So that the Yamaguchi group new newspaper will publish some poems that embarrass the gangsters:

"What's more serious than leaking information is leaking urine."

'every time I see a child in the first month, my wallet will cry.'

"The doctor's diagnosis is very accurate when you are old."

With the deteriorating economic strength of Japanese gangs and the danger and illegality of gangster activities, fewer and fewer young people want to join the underworld. For gangster members, the current situation is not only the degradation of physical function, but also a huge psychological gap.

Japan's laws and regulations against gangs are improving year by year. These mandatory 'restriction orders' make the Japanese gangs now face the biggest crisis in history: poor operation, no injection of fresh blood, and relying on the survival of the older generation of members alone.

Even in the comments on the shooting in the group reported by the media, some netizens said that 'it's a group of old people fighting by force'.

Even the Mafia world is helpless about aging. Unlike the heyday of Japanese gangs, the source of funds is now cut off and protection fees cannot be charged. Because of the existence of legal regulations, the general life of gang members is also constrained and can not live a normal life. Without the participation of young people, it is difficult to wash hands in a golden basin. Most gang members think that 'it is hell to break away from the gang world, and it is also hell to stay in the gang world'.

The once powerful Japanese gangs have now become a 'Center for the elderly'. With the aging of Japanese gangs, the sharp decline in their number and the increasing rejection of them by the Japanese public, will this once powerful Japanese gangs become history one day? With the passage of time, the future road of Yamaguchi formation is extremely bumpy.