Difference between revisions of "Yakuza"
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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
