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Forthcoming Current Anthropology Wenner-Gren Symposium Curren Supplementary Issues (in order of appearance) t Human Biology and the Origins of Homo. Susan Antón and Leslie C. Aiello, Anthropolog Current eds. e Anthropology of Potentiality: Exploring the Productivity of the Undened and Its Interplay with Notions of Humanness in New Medical Anthropology Practices. Karen-Sue Taussig and Klaus Hoeyer, eds. y THE WENNER-GREN SYMPOSIUM SERIES Previously Published Supplementary Issues April THE BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF LIVING HUMAN Working Memory: Beyond Language and Symbolism. omas Wynn and 2 POPULATIONS: WORLD HISTORIES, NATIONAL STYLES, 01 Frederick L. Coolidge, eds. 2 AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas. Setha M. Low and Sally GUEST EDITORS: SUSAN LINDEE AND RICARDO VENTURA SANTOS Engle Merry, eds. V The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations olum Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form. Contexts and Trajectories of Physical Anthropology in Brazil Damani Partridge, Marina Welker, and Rebecca Hardin, eds. e Birth of Physical Anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal 5 Norwegian Physical Anthropology and a Nordic Master Race T. Douglas Price and Ofer 3 e Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. The Ainu and the Search for the Origins of the Japanese Bar-Yosef, eds. Isolates and Crosses in Human Population Genetics Supplement Practicing Anthropology in the French Colonial Empire, 1880–1960 Physical Anthropology in the Colonial Laboratories of the United States Humanizing Evolution Human Population Biology in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Internationalizing Physical Anthropology 5 Biological Anthropology at the Southern Tip of Africa The Origins of Anthropological Genetics Current Anthropology is sponsored by e Beyond the Cephalic Index Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Anthropology and Personal Genomics Research, a foundation endowed for scientific, Biohistorical Narratives of Racial Difference in the American Negro educational, and charitable purposes. -
The Yamaguchi-Gumi Split and the Formalities of Gang War
The Yamaguchi-gumi split and the formalities of gang war The Yamaguchi-gumi (YG), Japan’s largest Designated Organized Crime Groups (指定暴力) are organized crime group with over 100 years of history, the most harshly regulated and subject to related split apart on 27 August 2015. Thirteen gangs split laws, but there are also smaller yakuza groups that from the group, forming the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi still operate without such restrictions. (KYG), based in Awaji, Hyogo prefecture. The move also coincided with the 10th anniversary of Shinobu Tsukasa’s ascent to power as the head of the YG. The “Yakuza organizations are not necessarily timing of the split was meant to be a slap in the face. illegal. They exist as semi-legal entities with office buildings, corporate logos, their own The KYG, headed by Kunio Inoue, is rising to challenge the YG and the organized crime establishment. internal newspapers, affiliated fan Although many tabloids have predicted that the “the magazines, and comic books about their streets will run with blood,” a minimal amount of exploits.” violence has actually occurred that can be directly attributed to the split. The split: origins and implications The current yakuza landscape The YG split had been brewing for years, starting in August 2005, when Kenichi Shinoda, better known by According to the National Police Agency (NPA), the his yakuza moniker Shinobu Tsukasa, took over as the split left Japan’s organized crime world divided into 6th generation leader of the YG. Tsukasa had the following major groups: the Yamaguchi-gumi previously founded and headed the YG Kodo-kai (Kobe) with 14,000 members, the Sumiyoshi-kai faction, headquartered in Nagoya. -
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INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015 Jain monk requires eight months to walk to court AHMEDABAD: An itinerant Jain monk from Ahmedabad-a journey the 60- documents endorsing the practice. before court by November 4,” Gandhi stepping on or swallowing insects. ordered to appear in court in the year-old says he will only undertake The charge was filed by Jashmin said yesterday. They live an itinerant life, meaning Indian city of Ahmedabad has said he on foot. But a court rejected his Shah, a local Jain community leader Jainism is an ancient Indian religion Maharaj has no fixed address although needs eight months to get there request for the lengthy journey and who has fought a campaign against whose followers live a spartan lifestyle he regularly visits Ahmedabad in the because his strict faith prevents him told him to appear in court next Bal Diksha. Shah’s lawyer Nitin Gandhi according to strict non-violent princi- western state of Gujarat, home to from using any form of transport. month. Maharaj faces charges of pro- told AFP the court had ruled out an ples. Jain monks renounce all worldly many Jain holy sites. Hindu-majority Acharya Kirti Yashurishwarji moting Bal Diksha-the recruitment of eight-month delay. “The court has goods and even sweep the floor in India is home to around four million Maharaj is currently in the eastern city children into the Jain monastic order- issued a fresh bailable warrant against front of them and cover their mouths Jains, many of whom live in Gujarat of Kolkata, about 2,200 kilometers by publishing forged government the monk and directed him to appear with their hands as they walk to avoid and neighboring Rajasthan. -
Alien Vs American
Alien vs American • (Muslim) Man jailed for allegedly trying to drag teen from SoCal bookstore Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:30:48 PM · by george76 · 58 replies City News Service ^ | 05/20/2013 ALISO VIEJO - A 29-year-old man was behind bars today on suspicion of trying to drag a teenage girl out of a bookstore in Aliso Viejo, a sheriff's spokesman said. Saif Mohamed Moussa was booked on suspicion of kidnapping and child annoyance and was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail, said Jim Amormino of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. A 17-year-old girl was shopping in the Barnes & Noble store at 26751 Aliso Creek Road about 2 p.m. Saturday when Moussa wrapped her up in a bear hug and started walking her to the front door, • Man Takes 12-Year-Old to Planned Parenthood for Abortion to Hide Rape Monday, May 20, 2013 3:48:13 PM · by Morgana · 35 replies Life News ^ | Steven Ertelt A man in Washington state took a 12-year-old girl to a Planned Parenthood clinic for an abortion to cover up his sexual assault on the teenage girl. The abortion business apparently did the abortion without hesitation. According to the Bellingham Herald: A Washington State man who impregnated a preteen girl and forced her to have an abortion must serve a six-year prison sentence, then leave the country Luis Gonzalez-Jose, 31, raped the girl at a home in rural Whatcom County while her mother was in the shower, according to charging documents filed in Whatcom County Superior Court. -
DEN FINGERLØSE MAFIAEN FINGERLØSE DEN Mektigste Forbrytersyndikatet I Verden
DEN FINGERLØSE MAFIAEN christiansen w. tomm foto: En bande med tatoveringer og fingerproteser infiltrerte finans markedene og ble det DN Magasinet Magasinet DN desember 2013 28. lørdag mektigste forbrytersyndikatet i verden. Les om livet i den japanske yakuzaen. Reportasje foto: christopher jue/the times/news syndication times/news jue/the christopher foto: HOVEDKVARTERET. Medlemmer av det fryktede Kudo-kai-syndikatet utenfor hovedkvarteret i byen Kitakyushu. Myndighetene har nå erklært krig mot mafiaen. – Vi forsvinner aldri, sier et Kudo-kai-medlem til DN. Tre svarte, blankpolerte biler som ingen nær- barer og restauranter kunne bøtelegges hvis de så mye skjorte, fra balkongen i leiligheten i Zushi sør for Tokyo mer seg. De står der nesten hver kveld, på samme sted, som serverte en yakuza. Så forsvant de fra gatebildet, ser han yachthavnen, den halvmåneformede sand- under de nevrotisk hamrende neonskiltene i Tokyos en sjelden gang kunne man se deres svarte limousi- stranden og hvordan solen langsomt legger seg i mørke Kabukicho-distrikt. ner jage gjennom Tokyo. Men de var ikke borte. De had- bak Fuji-fjellet. Det er en utsikt han setter pris på. I 20 år – It’s the hard guys doing the hard things the hard de dekket tatoveringene med silkeskjorter, skjult de så han kun veggene i en fengselscelle. way, sier en av sexbarenwes gustne innkastere. avkappede lillefingrene med silikonproteser og gått inn – Yakuzaen er forandret. Før var vi en del av folket, på Han er så fornøyd med replikken at han gjentar den. i finansmarkedene. min tid drev vi med vanlige forretninger, i nabolaget – Yakuza, forklarer han. -
Capital Punishment Japan’S Yakuza Vie for Control of Tokyo
SERIOUS & ORGANISED CRIME Capital punishment Japan’s yakuza vie for control of Tokyo The Tokyo-based Sumiyoshi-kai, Japan’s second-largest yakuza group, has become embroiled in turf warfare with its rival, the Yamaguchi-gumi. Kosuke Takahashi examines the history and recent activities of the Sumiyoshi-kai as it attempts to consolidate its position. The Sumiyoshi-kai, traditionally based in According to Dai Izuishi, a writer and former and around Tokyo, is under pressure owing to gang leader affiliated with the Sumiyoshi-kai, KEY POINTS KEY POINTS KEY POINTS a number of different factors. The country’s eco- the group used to extort approximately JPY100 • Three main yakuza groups – the Yamaguchi-gumi, the Sumiyoshi-kai and the nomic downturn is squeezing the Sumiyoshi- million (USD1 million) a month from adult en- Inagawa-kai – dominate Japan’s organised kai’s sources of revenue, such as the real estate tertainment and sex-related businesses in Gin- crime scene. sector or financial services. In addition, the za, Shibuya and Roppongi districts. The group group is still recovering from the imposition had to pay around 10 per cent of it as a rental fee • With the Yamaguchi-gumi making inroads of counter-criminal legislation in 1992, which to the Kokusui-kai, which had originally con- into the Sumiyoshi-kai’s base in Tokyo, for the first time defined the yakuza in law and trolled those areas in the post-war period. How- tensions are rising between the two groups, made it easier for the authorities to crack down ever, after September 2005, when the Kokusui- resulting in heightened violence. -
Das Vielfältige Gesicht Der Organisierten Kriminalität
ZENTRUM FÜR EUROPÄISCHE RECHTSPOLITIK CENTRE OF EUROPEAN LAW AND POLITICS University Bremen ZERP Yuriy Fesh de Jour Das vielfältige Gesicht der organisierten Kriminalität: Ihre Organisationsformen und Strukturen am Beispiel chinesischer, japanischer und italienischer krimineller Organisationen ZERP-Arbeitspapier 3/2014 IMPRESSUM Herausgeber/ Zentrum für Europäische Redaktion/ Rechtspolitik Vertrieb: Universität Bremen Universitätsallee, GW 1 28359 Bremen Nachdruck: Nur mit Genehmigung des Herausgebers ISSN (Internet): 1868-7520 Bremen, im Oktober 2014 3 Inhalt Zusammenfassung ........................................................................................................ 5 Abstract ........................................................................................................................ 5 1. Einleitung ................................................................................................................. 6 2. Triaden – die chinesischen Geheimbünde ............................................................... 7 3. Die japanische Yakuza............................................................................................ 23 3.1.1 Bakuto und tekiya ....................................................................................... 26 3.1.2 Gurentai, chimpira und bōsōzoku ............................................................... 28 4. Mafia – die besondere Form der organisierten Kriminalität in Italien .................. 42 5. Fazit ..................................................................................................................... -
Robin Hoods? Most Yakuza, Due to Their Historic Roots, Believe Themselves to Be Robin Hood-Like figures in the Public Eye
Abstract Big Statistics: For generations Japan has been trying to control Research Questions: Members in and contain their mafia organizations known as yakuzas. The yakuza groups have been an issue since What are the Yakuza doing now? 1960: 184,000 the Tokugawa era in the early 1800s, and to this day they continue to defy the Japanese government which has never been able to fully rid the country of these 2018: 30,500 organizations. In our research we examine why the (The Telegraph) Japanese government has such a hard time trying to Why are the Yakuza still around? deal with yakuza and why the yakuza have a big 63% of Japanese people continue Kenichi Shinoda (center), head of Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, after his impact on Japanese society. release from prison in 2011. (From CNN) For our research we will be using sources such as to support Yakuza activity. (Japan Times) historical documents, police reports, articles/newspapers, and first hand accounts on How long are they going to be dealing with yakuza. Taking a look at such sources has led us to finding out that the Japanese government is around? starting to crack down on yakuza more since 2011 with the support of the United States government though the yakuza still continue to hold roots in Japanese businesses and citizens. We hope to bring awareness to this topic and teach people how the yakuza organizations have changed and adapted over the Current years, how they are currently being handled in Japan, They are now branching out more internationally and and how they could be dealt with in the future.