Do the Yakuza still exist in Japan?

Now a different marina, no yakuza, and a traditional, Japanese-style fishing boat. Too small for cocktails or parties, but it gets me to the Izu islands where I still go fishing with my buddies and former students … and would not be surprised to see someone pull into Habu no Minato from my old pre-Jack Sparrow, Disney days. read more

Oh yeah. The first time I ran across Yakuza was quite a while back, about 30 years ago when I first moved to Japan. read more

so I been wondering cuz korea doesn't seems to have that thing like mafia or something so is japan the same , or gangs and yakuza still exist in real life are they bad people Organised crime and corruption is big in Korea. read more

Though recent laws have caused revenues to go down, the Yakuza will always exist. And if the LDP and gov officials were not colluding with the Yakuza, they would have been history long ago. The gov uses the Yakuza to do it's dirty work, i.e. silence liberal groups and promote conservatism. read more