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== Important Syndicates ==
 
== Important Syndicates ==
[[Seattle Yakuza]]
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== Key Terms ==
 
== Key Terms ==

Revision as of 12:52, 27 August 2004

Organised crime syndicate. Orginating from seventeenth-century Japan

Names comes from the worst hand in the card game hanafu-da, 8-9-3 or ya-ku-za. The expression came to mean something wothless, and people attached it to a whole class of criminals, who adopted it as a badge of honour.

Important Syndicates

Key Terms