TOKURYŪ - Japan's NEW CRIMINAL THREAT

[@anikihistory]

📣A massive shout-out to Henry Tan (@henry_art_diary on Instagram) who very kindly allowed me to use his beautiful artwork in both the video and the thumbnail! Make sure to check out his page for even more amazing art!

[@rocketgrunthyunho]

I wanted to ask, what was the film that we saw throughout the video at the beginning? Might be worthy of a good watch.

[@dongshengdi773]

Yakuza is a myth. They never existed

[@angloedu5499]

Much like the Triads of Asia, MS13, Sinolua cartel, Indian organized crime. It’s all fake I’m sure!

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Japans decline is directly the cause of its worsening living standards thanks to americas trade policies with them and the fact that they abuse the bond market to export their inflation to japan 😢

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Its the same with germany right now, crime and radicalism is rising thanks to the destructioj of nord stream and the us poaching most of the german businesses that shut down due to forced abrupt decoupling with china

[@LifeofBrad1]

It seems as Japan slammed the front door on the yakuza, the back door flew open for a load of opportunistic thugs to creep in through.

[@Shin_Lona]

Classic power vacuum rake step moment. 🤦

[@GnosisZX]

Yakuza was the devil that was known and made itself known and can be countered These guys nearly nothing is known

[@6wild6flower6]

"Back door flew open for a load" lol yes

[@macrosense]

But how many crimes are they not getting caught for

[@Matixmer]

@@Shin_Lona Worse probably in actuality. The old Yakuza for all the faults by design were incentivised to curb petty crime. Yes there is their absence for one. But I suspect the number of Yakuza or rather organized criminals isn’t actually going down as much as that the younger ones don’t act as the old Yakuza and more like other organized crime organizations around the world. No more offices, pins, tattoos etc. They are probably there and totally incentivised not to act as a somewhat stabilizing force like the classical Yakuza and instead employ petty criminals themselves.

[@downrightmike]

The dumb Yakuza are disappearing, the smart ones got into legit businesses during the japanese miracle and that worked out for them. Example: Sega

[@yourdissapointeddaddy2057]

Sony

[@Miawzhies]

Cygames

[@marwapranata5698]

​@@Miawzhies fr?

[@smillphy4756]

Huh?, Sega have yakuza ties?

[@asuspiciouswatamelonthatdi9236]

That's true for all old organized crime groups that are on the decline. The smart ones went legit with all the money and resources they had. The dumb ones still cling onto whatever ideals that are left because those ideals are all that they are.

[@viewsfromcairo]

looks like the plot of Like a Dragon 9 got leaked

[@kirannicolebuckhannon1492]

I've been playing so much like a dragon in Yakuza that I swear I need the Tojo clans 4th chairman in my life like I should probably take a break cuz when you start having dreams about a video game character but I think it's because they're so well-made you've kind of actually have no choice but to actually kind of resonate emotionally... I legit sobbed for like an hour and a half whenever he broke down getting to see the video clip of the kids has me crying up right now lol

[@GnosisZX]

Perhaps those who have blood of makoto tojo (tojo clan founder) may come out of the wolf work to restore the clan and they don’t care what they got to do

[@Ja_Mes]

@@kirannicolebuckhannon1492go outside wtf

[@jotakux7489]

I heard it was gonna be a twin stick shooter with rpg elements with donkey racing mini games this time around.

[@kirannicolebuckhannon1492]

I want kiryu to get to be able to see the kids again doesnt owe groups or allegiance to nobody..

[@olibo1149]

Damn, gotta look out for them Pachinko addicted Anime voice actors. Theyll choke you out for a Takoyaki.

[@stevenedmund5680]

LMAO .. but for real though

[@olibo1149]

@@stevenedmund5680 Them 3rd Generation Pokemon be wildin

[@olibo1149]

@@stevenedmund5680 Jigglypuff needs to eat

[@chase14000]

you just be putting random ass words into a sentence

[@olibo1149]

​dude just google whatever you dont understand. 87 other people apparently got it.

[@StaggerjAGGER]

This was a big point in Lost Judgement. All the ex Tojo and Omi guys got together and hopped on the trend of not identifying themselves as Yakuza in order to keep control of the city.

[@stevenp7655]

That's also a big point in Like a dragon 7 and 8. The anti Yakuza laws went into more detail showing what happened to some of the former Yakuza once they fell from their status.

[@mahiru20ten]

RK? Oh yes, this definitely sounds like them.

[@ISGSAGE]

Ayeeee big faxxxx

[@JoshuaPerez-zi7ci]

Gaiden is another one too. The Castle is ran basically by criminals and Yakuza either affiliated with the Omi and after the story its basically still ran by their version of the Omi Alliance and the Joryu Clan is basically a exaggerated version of the Tokoryu.

[@Biodebatable]

This form of essentially mercenary work with strict measures to ensure anonymity is highly successful for single instance criminal actions like burglary, assassination etc. but I don't see it overtaking continuous criminal ventures like loan sharks, racketeering, protection, shadow markets etc.

[@MrAbcdefgbarney]

Mmm, sure but lower profile. Could also easily expand into cyber crimes like the hood dudes in Detroit

[@petergray2712]

Mafias get started by doing gofer and gig work for other unscrupulous crews or individuals. This allows them to build capital and networks with other criminals until they have enough critical mass of funds and rudimentary organization to build new cartels. The Italian Mafias (Cosa Nostra, Camora, and Ndragheta) were originally militias set up to resist intrusion by outside empires. The Mexican cartels were originally for-hire muscle used by political clans to intimidate rivals. Chinese Triads were formerly Anti-Manchu rebels formed from street toughs and other despised minority groups. The only issue with these new criminals is finding larger markets beyond their current economic base. Most modern mafias did this by accessing illegal markets for contraband and through questionable overlapping ties with legitimate organizations that tolerated their activities for mutual benefit. These new Japanese criminals don't seem to have either the markets or the legitimate connections to permit growth into major players.

[@oneproudbrowncoat]

​@myriage At the retail level, certainly; but it's going to be very cumbersome the further back one goes. Illicit products aren't immune to the necessities of a supply chain.

[@IOPE_]

I live in hanno the yakuza isnt dying, just more in the background ,they just had a big funeral a few weeks ago and saw yakuza vans all day driving up and down and about 400 guys running around, some at Macdonald some getting suit clean roller at the local home center😅 it was wild

[@diogopires4569]

In these comments many people assume the fall of the yakuza but I think they are looking at things the wrong way, it is true that the yakuza is not what it was but to say that it is weak or ending is a naive mistake. I spoke in a post here about the semi-gangs or hangure and many people think that they are taking the place of the yakuza but no, they end up being practically an organization that does services and pays for the yakuza and as the law is much less severe for non-yakuza organizations they end up having a larger membership, but if you look at it the leaders always end up being executives of the yakuza. I think it's very wrong not to expect that most of these organizations don't pay or don't have some kind of connection with the yakuza, and I even think that it's the yakuza who organize anonymous groups. It's true that the yakuza is not what it used to be, it's changing and taking new forms perhaps losing some traditions and moving towards a more underground organization. Yes, because there are more and more unregistered yakuza members. Being a yakuza by law is no longer attractive, so they're changing the rules of the game.

[@ericgeesey9817]

Nevermind, many Yakuza likely relocated to the US and elsewhere.

[@elmalanmalan2175]

That's true!

[@aceloco817]

@@diogopires4569 plus people get older. If the youngsters don't push the line, the movement stops. Same with every other organization.... Edit- once u lose the tradition, u lost everything it ever stood for....

[@alphaeligon9226]

😮😮😮😮😮😮! Hhhmmm!!

[@diogopires4569]

​@@aceloco817 The statistics show that there are around 22,400 members of the Yakuza, but these are statistics and we can expect either more members or even fewer due to people who have left or are not really active, since in 2022 30.8% of the registered Yakuza were in their 50s and 60s and around 10.7% were over 70. However, the police estimate that there are around 4,000 semi-gang members, but we can expect more since you don't need a clear affiliation to be a member. And most of these organizations work with or have connections to the yakuza, so we can estimate that there are 4,000 members aged 40 or younger working with the yakuza. I do not have age statistics for the hangure, but it is mostly people in their 20s and 30s. as for the anonymous/mobile criminal groups or TOKURYŪ "in March 2024, the total number of people arrested in the three years from 2021 to 2024 exceeded 10,000 and investigations are being stepped up" and if you think that the yakuza or hangure didn't participate in these then you're wrong. What I'm getting at is that even if a person isn't directly involved with the Yakuza, we can expect that there are many more people connected to it without being directly linked.

[@henry_art_diary8768]

Hi, just wanna mention that the artwork used in the thumbnail and in the video at 21:47 was drawn by me :) Love the video tho!! Hope we can work together in the future.

[@zzasserzz]

@aniki! Do ittt

[@enricopucci7413]

😮😮😮 Nice smothered lines

[@hundgawf9506]

Nice,cool art

[@rexpayne7836]

Great artwork. You're a true artist. 🇦🇺 😊

[@jazzjazz7805]

u just copy pasted no?

[@mogreen19]

Japanese retirement homes just became a lot unsafer with the Yakuza taking control ;-)

[@yourdissapointeddaddy2057]

Japanese retirement homes don’t exist in Japan

[@aceloco817]

All that tribute paid to the bosses, you'd think they'd have their own retirement homes. Maybe so, maybe not. Lol

[@TravelatorH8r]

Unsafer

[@Quartercrawler]

👴

[@Derp348]

From what? angry old man that cannot control their bladder

[@felixthecat4584]

I mean.... if you are stealing pokeman cards by the truck load, it's probably very profitable.

[@coboldelphi]

There's lots of money to be made on anything, especially if your cost to obtain it is nearly zero.

[@aceloco817]

@@felixthecat4584 imagine tearing open all those pack! Good lord that's a lot of work!! All that to not even get the most rare ones too! 🤣

[@jonathanmarth6426]

Trading cards are big money. Don't think Pokémon is quite up there but if you robbed a Magic: The Gathering tournament with even just 10 players you'd end up with the kind of money that Wakayama was willing to kill two people for.

[@felixthecat4584]

@@aceloco817 I have no idea what you are talking about. I have not bought a baseball card since 93. Sadly, I used to be involved in organized crime, thus I understand the value of a truckload of things someone already paid for. At that point its all profit. (until you think about the prison time or bullet wound you will eventually always get)

[@felixthecat4584]

@@coboldelphi Bingo.

[@flu-flam-a-opp]

The streets are getting hungrier. Minimum wage staying the same while food prices are steadily rising. If this is happening in Japan, I bet it's getting worse in less developed countries.

[@Big_Sloppa]

Like USA?

[@BiggestHater754]

@@Big_Sloppaalways an American trying to make it about themselves, you mfs think you live in Venezuela, I can afford food and so can anyone with a job, yall just mad Fast food is more expensive.

[@users4007]

At least home prices aren't ridiculously high there

[@dunzhen]

It's especially bad in Japan. America didn't allow Japan to save its currency

[@1stHalf]

It's crazy to expect people to have the same wages when inflation goes insane. It feels like this was done on purpose. It's such a simple concept. Inflation? Raises wages?

[@UnknownSend3r]

I think the tokyryu just gave a lifeline to the Yakuza, it’s a tailor made solution to the two main problems the Yakuza currently face 1: harsh government crackdowns and 2: dwindling membership. Tokyryu is the underworlds version of a gig-economy, one that a shrinking Yakuza could benefit from and the members are anonymous and have no connection to each other which makes cracking down that much more difficult, and there reach is no longer limited to a particular prefecture or city, If the Yakuza play their cards right this could be an evolution more effective, elusive and insidious than what they were before. A 16 year old school girl in her uniform could be planting a pipe bomb for the Yakuza (not that they use that method much)

[@petergray2712]

There are three trends that are already extant that could make this a reality: 1. The Yakuza are already using Tokuryu inspired phone and internet scams from domestic boiler rooms. Most of the workers employed are Non-Yakuza Japanese. 2. Black Companies. These are corporations that generally don't comply with Japanese labor and health laws that basically enslave their workers. It's not much of a stretch to use these companies (which use gig worker part-time contracts for hiring) to recruit workers into clandestine criminal work. 3. Japan's large sex industry. Japan has a large informal sector exclusively for sex work, employing a significant number of undocumented female gig workers. Most of this work relies upon internet and social media for recruitment and advertising, as well as anonymous dispatch of sex workers and for payment. Many Tokuryu masterminds actually got started as pimps and virtual sex club owners, before migrating to fraud and more violent crimes.

[@JoshuaPerez-zi7ci]

​@@petergray2712Add that to the occasional vigilante work. Can set jobs to take down established criminal organizations either by organizing a group big enough to take on the gang or planting evidence and the such where the police would focus heavily on the target gang

[@hedoroti]

I love when kiryu said "Mine, stop this, iam way more yakuza 3 than you" and then he started to yakuza 3 all over

[@JoshuaPerez-zi7ci]

@@hedoroti Blockuza all over the place 🤤

[@onetwothree-w7h]

So basically Japan got cyberpunk style mercenaries now

[@Big_Sloppa]

Nah, it's basically Indian scam artists

[@tokukeitaro]

I was thinking the same, but cyberpunk mercs have decent skills from various backgrounds. Amateur recruits result in Amateur results. Tokuryu masterminds probably should grade their recruits carefully to see what applicable skills they have. Most traditional crime organizations keep an eye out for recruits with military or police skills. Jail time can mean improved education and training by other criminals. Yakuza and triads run martial arts schools to train and grade their recruits. It will be interesting to see how this develops.

[@onetwothree-w7h]

@@tokukeitaro Whole scene appeared basically yesterday and Japanese society has not so many concrete circumstances for high grade mercenaries to develop - it requires experience and for disorganised crime in an overall pretty safe country you need a lot of time for more lucky of said mercenaries to gain it Criminal mercenaries of higher efficiency commonly appear in history after big wars, when thousands and millions of people with new military experience return to country where they often have nothing to do Japan today doesn’t have that, so they once again develop something in their own unique route

[@tokukeitaro]

@@onetwothree-w7h excellent points.

[@evian6673]

They use the Lebanese loop technique on convenience store ATM's, try to use as much cash as you can out here.

[@nomoneyglobal]

1 million yen is 6k US. Wow I didn't realize the exchange rate was that extreme.

[@zoeherriot]

It’s skewed because you are essentially comparing cents with dollars. But yes, the exchange rate means it takes 160¥ one dollar at the moment. Or 160¥ buys 100 us cents.

[@yourdissapointeddaddy2057]

@@zoeherriotits the same thing….

[@yourdissapointeddaddy2057]

Used to be 10k USD for 1 million yen

[@Duke6598]

Its because Japan has a huge currency crisis

[@jonathanmarth6426]

I was also taken aback, learned the 円100 equals $1 conversion years back. And even though that hasn't been accurate since the 90s it' still shocking to see how little the yen is worth these days.

[@cb7841]

Luffy out here trying to steal the grand line

[@KingofAwesomness14]

I just saw that, that is....just the most one can do about something like that. I feel bad for One Piece now.

[@99Gara99]

Luffy name deserved better

[@KingofAwesomness14]

@@99Gara99 truth

[@draggador]

the straw hats went from pirate to syndicate

[@kingkwon8002]

@@draggadorThey lived long enough to become villains.

[@Peta_CHAD69]

What's ironic is, back in the 1900s the Yakuzas were, while obviously being a criminal organizations themselves, kind of a underworld closers whose existence itself was like a deterrent to other criminal gangs because, simply put, nobody would fuck with Yakuzas. They were keeping thugs and delinquents in check while committing crimes themselves. They'd be basically like "Who the fuck do you think you are committing crimes in MY criminal turf!?!?!?!?" But now, it's kinda like how the world destroyed Ghaddafi and Libya had became a complete shitshow, a breeding ground for the most extreme of all terrorists. Like, I get it that he had to go but, at what cost?? Also there's that, they had this kind of moral code where they don't really mess with civilians unless they either had to or wanted to or had reasons to like they owed them money or smt. It's not like a strict rule but, rather like it's "un-cool" as a Yakuza to unwarrantedly bully ordinary citizens and Yakuzas USED TO hate being un-cool so there's that.

[@aurelianobuendia5360]

Wise words

[@NickdeVera]

huh, enshittification in the criminal underworld, can't even have yakuza job security anymore, everything's a gig economy now

[@saymyname2417]

Criminals as human burner phones.

[@koomar341]

Dang, robbing old people for chump change is some low shit

[@qwerknet]

My opinion, the only way thess Tokuryuu gangs will be able to supersede the Yakuza is to organize themselves, which apparently runs counter to their ethos. They might become the dominant presence in the underworld, but they'll have a hard time gaining actual control from other organized elements if they remain fragmented as they are. Heck, it's probably what they want anyway.

[@NTBXP1]

匿流 can be read as "anon-style". Which it fits perfectly.

[@permeated.thoughts]

Onan

[@hundgawf9506]

Don't misconstrued it with people of the internet.

[@hundgawf9506]

*aka anonymous of the world wide web

[@NTBXP1]

@@hundgawf9506 Any other abbreviation for anonymous for this one?

[@Durrutitv]

The Young Master's Kamurocho 3k plan was a success, but even Ryo Aoki and Bleach Japan could not foresee the rise of the illegal pokemon trade.

[@InfamyJunkie]

yo yo, possible future video idea since you cover a lot of yakuza/japanese underworld topics. look into "sarakin" and "yamikin" crimes. you could prolly find recent and past examples for both and talk about the loan shark and extortion crimes in Japan and tie it in the yakuza and modern day Japanese criminal orgs. from what i know, loan sharks and extortion were significant ways the yakuza made their money at their height. if you want to go really seedy, you can tie it to Japan's adult film industry.

[@anikihistory]

Would be some interesting topics indeed, all depends on if i can find good sources to do my research ofc but i'll keep it in mind! Thanks for the inspiration!

[@kikicantu5934]

there is a manga that kind of dives into this topic but doesn't fully discuss or incorporate the yakuza into it. its about a loan shark business and how they give unreasonable loans to people and suck them dry, ruin their lives, and financials. All for the sole purpose of making a dollar to keep themselves in business with the yakuza. It does incorporate real stories taken and skewed with a little bit but it mostly sticks to the main story they cover in that chapter in particular.

[@InfamyJunkie]

@@kikicantu5934 is the manga called Ushijima the Loan Shark? It’s the main result that came up when I used some key words from your description.

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

Yamikin ? i heard that's related to loan shark.

[@Tony-vo9wr]

​@@kikicantu5934could you please tell the name of it?

[@pauliedibbs9028]

Hope you are having a blessed Sunday. Always happy to see a new video from you! EDIT: This is a very interesting somewhat unique/new way of further insulating the criminal "core" or hierarchies... Almost franchise-like and horizontal, as opposed to vertical*

[@tylerking5214]

The whole population of Japan is declining, not just the yakuza

[@hedoroti]

I will save it

[@aurelianobuendia5360]

Declining sure, but less than any western country.

[@dirtiestharry6551]

6:29 this is sorta wrong. While it is true that thise two Kanji letters are used, Tokuryu is abbreviation of Tokumei(anonymous) and Ryudou(while it usually means flow, in cyber security, it means dynamic ip adress)

[@draggador]

that sounds like specialized jargon not available in normal dictionaries; i checked my japanese dictionary apps & they said just flow for "ryuudou"; maybe the uploader experienced the same

[@carstenr7978]

Technically you’re right but Japanese shorten everything!

[@itsgoubie]

Someone commented "anon-style"

[@kitsunerinkan]

I’ve noticed a massive uptick in the petty BS crimes in Japan. I’ve lived here half my life, having moved from America. I used to say I wouldn’t worry in the slightest walking around alone at night here, and while I’d still feel safer doing so here…well? Now, I’d feel a lot less safer. I sure wouldn’t do it alone, when I had no problem doing so when I first came here. Japan is on a very quick downward slide. Time has caused morals and values to slide. There’s been a sharp rise in burglary, purse snatching, trafficking, the “oreore” phone scandals, murder, you name it, it’s happening. Kids aren’t allowed to play outside alone anymore unless both parents work, and the issue is that, well? Times are so hard that more and more families are being forced to have most parents work, and a lot of the time it’s with both parents working multiple jobs. Pair it with the amount of online crime, (the amount of scam mails that come to everyone’s phone these days, DUDE, even the phone calls wtf), and it’s just… Wild. Japan is NOT the super safe nice country it was. Also these Tokuryu are working with the Hangure, to work with the Yakuza. They are just doing the jobs the yakuza don’t want to get caught doing, I’m pretty sure.

[@youtubeuser5045]

So japan is quickly turning into the philippines eh? As someone who entertains the idea of moving there that's... disappointing to say the least.

[@jayklink851]

When I was traveling in Japan, my friend left a bag containing a $2,000 camera/lens and $1,200 in cash on the bullet train. Someone on the train found the bag, and took god knows how long calling up different hotels to locate where we were staying, then mailing it to the hotel. At the time, Japan was still famous for having low crime rates. Still, we were surprised, to say the least, that we recovered those items.

[@thegarge7476]

Sounds like paranoid fear-mongering to me

[@gordonbgraham]

Lots of Vietnamese gangs, especially involved in auto theft. My son has a lot in Kobe and buys cars in bulk at auction. There have been several incidents involving Vietnamese gangs

[@gordonbgraham]

Kids aren't allowed to play outside?!! I live in Saitama...kids most certainly play outside, our neighborhood is full of cries and laughter with the streets full of kids playing outside

[@jamjc1178]

The tokuryu methods are actually not that new. Similar methods have been used for many years by syndicates from china and southeast asia to perform online scams. It would be scary if the yakuza start working with chinese ""fujian gangs" for these things.

[@ArlindoBuriti]

i don't think the yakuza likes anyone outside of japan.

[@cdru515]

Russian drug dealers also operate in a similar manner. People have been complaining about receiving SMS messages from criminal recruiters

[@samurai4766]

there is something strangely familiar in this story, then I remembered that in the Ghost in the shell anime there was a criminal who used other cyborgs in his planned crimes

[@kn2549]

As much as the Yakuzas will shrink in time, I still think they will still keep its position within the Japanese underworld but alot more quietly. Seeing new criminal groups such as Hangure and Tokuryu come out, it seems like they are being supported by the Yakuzas in terms of supplies, knowledge, connections etc.

[@solo.solito]

You made my day! Thanks so much!!

[@anikihistory]

Thank you for watching!

[@TheDumontShow]

First of, this content was absolutely incredible. Holy moley. This was TV quality. Really good. The editing, presentation and voicework were top notch. Im a new sub now. Secondly, yazuka and the tokuryu are going to merge. The yazuka is ingrained jn Japanese history and culture. I can't ever see it being gone from Japan. The tokuryu is the next evolution of the yakuza to me. Once they merge

[@angloedu5499]

Do you really think a centuries old organized crime group would just die out to a bunch of telemarketing assassins? Nahhhhh.

[@angloedu5499]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃🤣🤣

[@aceloco817]

@@angloedu5499 telemarketing assassin's is the best description of these fools! 🤣

[@pumkinmuscles1104]

No one wants to be Yakuza. Former shell of themselves like the Italian Mob in the US. New crazier groups with less morals will more likely form and they'll wish they were still dealing with the Yakuza.

[@koraegi]

Yes when the government has made it pretty much impossible for Yakuza members to live like a human being in Japan And they're not getting replaced by young street gangs. It's more of an open door for south east asian and Chinese gangs And the saying is true Better the devil you know

[@Big_Sloppa]

Who knows. Sometimes you die with a whimper. Entire empires died like that.

[@DatBoiOrly]

Once they threw the Yakuza under the bus this was the likely outcome, theres two things that stop normal people from committing crimes, the law & retribution without the Yakuza there the retribution part is gone meaning a lower bar of entry to crime.

[@Biodebatable]

Not really, there's many factors that contribute to criminal and deviant behaviour such as: - an inability to meet basic needs through legitimate avenues - addiction - lack of support networks - lack of social and economic stability - lack of social mobility (the ability to improve ones socioeconomic status) - disenfranchisement from the status quo - increased social and economic pressures And more. The idea that the Yakuza acted as a social deterrent to petty crime is a lie that directly benefits their protection rackets, with thugs often paid to create the issue in the first place by criminal syndicates like the Yakuza. -

[@Voidapparate]

​@@BiodebatableNonsense it's all genetics.

[@SharifSourour]

It sounds like a criminal stand alone complex.

[@InfiniteVoidStorm]

Remember Batman Dark Knight; When bank robbers didn’t know who they were working with but only knew who they were working for also they didn’t know what he looked like.

[@evanmcarthur478]

Real Estate and Construction schemes hide many criminals in Japan 😢

[@boxerr1100s]

Would you believe I met the mastermind on a couple of occasions at a restaurant in Ueno, back in 2022 & 2023, he seemed like a nice guy.

[@yoshixyami]

MGS2 music in the background and a fire video auto sub. 🗣️

[@georgemontoya5218]

Yakuza, top management and Tokuryo , middle and lower management.

[@jasonblalock4429]

Huh... am I crazy, or were the Judgment (Eyes) games totally on top of this trend? Both Sugira in Judgment and "The Professor" in Lost Judgment really seem to fit this profile in different ways. This does nothing to shake my suspicion that the RGG writers have some 'friends' on the inside.

[@draggador]

maybe artistic creators are just getting there ideas from investigation reports provided in japanese news

[@AyoMousy]

No shit they have a connect to the inside I mean the game is YAKUZA lol Where do you think they get their ideas and inspiration from? It's been said that they have ex yakuza and still yakuza green light the game. Smooth brain comment.

[@juliosilva2301]

What's the background music? I feel like I'm sneaking through the Big Shell.😂

[@Karurosu99]

Like A Dragon: The Rise of the Tokuryu. Btw love the fact you used Yakuza music for the background! ❤ 🔥

[@mahiru20ten]

When I read "Tokuryuu" I thought it would be written with the kanji for "special" and "dragon", making it "特竜". I wonder if you would make an analysis on the criminal syndicate in Lost Judgment called RK, which seems to fit the term of Tokuryuu.

[@Sonmz]

Over the past 25 years, the Yakuza's influence has diminished to symbolic proportions. I've been following this process with interest. It got to the point where ordinary members of some gangs had to steal food to feed themselves; but it was clear from the start that there was to be a new phenomenon in Japan's criminal world. As we Russians like to say: a holy place is never empty.

[@th00perman_]

This new season of Tokyo Vice is looking insane.

[@npcimknot958]

6:18 its crazy because when they were reporting this.. LITerally there was another gruesome murder of an office worker that happened like the next few days.. ther were several around this time.. all really gruesome.

[@npcimknot958]

19:37 not when you’re in a bad situation.. you will be surprised what people will do

[@CodeEleven_86]

Finally an introduction and information about Tokuryu, I've been looking on what that org actually is and how did they work. Thanks, time to dig in,

[@TravisJones-t1q]

Just subscribed!!!! With this content you will definitely be over 500k subs before 2025. Love it!!! ❤

[@MAJIMAXKIRYU69]

I know the yakuza are bad but I’d consider risking my life daily working for them just for a chance to be one of the unnamed npcs Kiryu fights

[@Kriojenic]

Background music used? Cuz I swear I think I hear the ridge racer credit song hahaha

[@jamesknaack2720]

15:40 Dog knows his audience when he plays the yakuza background music

[@therealmonkfromtibet]

As long as money and power exists, there always will be criminals. There is no ending.

[@ca6360]

No it's what money buys and lifestyle they do not have to lead. It's not money itself. That's a bad relationship attitude with money that subcontiously sabotaged people

[@stevenedmund5680]

AWESOME VIDEO .. liked as always

[@MrJohnnybe123]

Just like police staffing levels are at a all time low in most first world countries

[@derpedfox]

RGG Studio: Finally new writing material

[@Colorado_Ronin]

Your channel is blowing up. I remember when it was only a few thousand. Also love the clips from Tokyo Vice

[@dragon9ght]

Nice to hear some metal gear solid 2 music in the background

[@lazyeight01]

Every click is an education. Keep ‘em coming sensei.

[@theuniverse5173]

Erm 🤓 big brain schizo theory, but what if the yakuza are the one actually behind this and the Tokuryū are just a front to these operations?

[@draggador]

i was wondering about the exact same thing; if the folks born & raised in yakuza families get into CS/IT stuff at a young age, then what's stopping them from choosing to go for shady career options? isn't it common globally for teenagers to have an interst in relatively dangerous stuff?

[@arielquelme]

Its could be possible

[@shain6946]

Just to be clear, they are not stealing new packs and laboriously searching for rare cards. They targeted stores and broke into the glass cabinets where the expensive cards are stored.

[@morsumbra9692]

Durarara predicted this like 10yrs ago and the whole colorless gang idea.... No joke anime is real life and real life anime??

[@AhmedFooruq]

That is basically being a temp in a criminal gang.

[@SIRKSELASOR21]

First video ive seen from you and I immediately smashed like and subscribed because you're a man of class used the MGS2 Ost as the background music for your video.

[@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF]

I think you're under estimating how many young yakuza there still are. And if you want another story. Check out the gang situation in Sweden. Europes new gun capital.

[@alexanikolas9172]

what's the soundtrackt that plays in the background at 5:20?

[@Tony-vo9wr]

Damn how can you do any serious crime businesses using people who don't know each other and have literally no experience and no skills in it. I mean yeah those can be some one time actions, but the number of their possible failures seems to be bigger than your profit:/ And thanks for new video, Aniki

[@KingofAwesomness14]

I'm more shocked these people would get involved in this in the first place.

[@KingofAwesomness14]

yea this is terrifying. What kind of Job demands you give information of your parents' house?! Also that Luffy sounds like it would be a great atagnoist for One Piece. neat!

[@gordonbgraham]

"Mastermind"...recruit guys that have no sense of loyalty and are going to rat. Brilliant "mastermind" strategy. I wonder how they ALL got caught

[@russiasniper97]

I don't like this tendency. No structure, no codex, no solidarity.

[@benbudin]

😂 ok gangster

[@russiasniper97]

@@benbudin Only gangsters are allowed to prefer the traditional mafia over this new bullshit.

[@benbudin]

​@@russiasniper97very romantic. Mafiosos (organize crime)are scumbags grimy people that kill anything that move. If you think are cheeky rascals that are cool you are watching too many movies.

[@russiasniper97]

@@benbudin The people in the organized crime are humans like you and me. There are very bad people, there are very good people, there are people in the middle. I know a few, you know. None of them have killed somebody. But of course it's easy to go through life like you: Somebody who does stuff against the law must be an awful person who murder everybody and everything. Thanks god, the life isn't that simple.

[@bufordhighwater9872]

Because criminal organizations are super well-known for their strict adherence to structure, codes, and their unfaltering willingness to stand next to their peers. They never kill their own, steal from each other, or make deals with the state or police.

[@davidalfaro1429]

Just found your channel randomly and just subscribed ❤

[@___chief866]

When a powerful entity falls or is in its death throes, it creates a vacuum that always gets filled

[@xoferwalken]

MGS 2 music is perfect for this topic.

[@diogopires4569]

do a video about semi Gangs also know as Hangure

[@kitsunerinkan]

I’d love this!

[@priceostia6292]

Wow, you are catching japanese news really quick

[@ADepressedWooper]

can we just appreciate the people at 11:58 and 12:07 for attempting to stop the robbers from getting out?

[@CantusTropus]

A criminal naming himself after a manga character (especially such a good-hearted one as Luffy) is just...strange.

[@heraschade7981]

he is literally a criminal in plot

[@blatzstats]

0:50 That grey hair guy is the father of a friend of mine

[@Dee-yj1im]

Really? What a coincidence

[@leonardogsperin]

Na minha teoria que pensei agora, não sei se alguém já comentou isso, mas a própria Yakuza pode ter criado este método, enquanto a Yakuza aparenta caindo, na verdade ela está trabalhando nas sombras, "com outro nome" digamos, tática comum na era Tokugawa.

[@temporal_lacunae]

Kind of dissappointed to see comments saying Yakuza are so honourable...are you joking? Yakuza do some crazy immoral stuff that is just as violent and unethical. Their treatment and entrapment of young women especially is absolutely heinous. They aren't better, they are just different, neither are preferable, they are both criminal gangs who cause harm to people.

[@FullMetalMudcrab]

Yakuza just had some really good PR marketing for themselves thanks to pop-culture and the entertainment industry romanticizing them in various forms of media and it appears to still be effective.

[@solenya4137]

@@FullMetalMudcrabsame romanticisation that people have with the Italian mafia, because of movies and tv shows.

[@sompret]

It's like fans of American government agencies like the FBI and CIA because of Hollypoop. Don't get too weighed down by the disappointment, your knowledge is much more important.

[@Shrouded_reaper]

Say what you will about organised crime but at least its organised

[@carlosz7208]

Japan should worry more about the high influx of foreign workers and the low morals that follows them.

[@peejae082004]

Are all the clips here from Tokyo Vice?

[@dazerrazer3018]

What movie was at 1:55

[@thelegoslinger]

Lemme know if you find out!

[@dazerrazer3018]

@@thelegoslingernope sadly not, do you recommend any good dark yakuza movies?

[@thelegoslinger]

@ not Japanese but A Bittersweet Life is my favorite mafia movie, A family is pretty good, Battles Without Honor And Humanity is a classic. You can find list everywhere or the best ones so I’d read those and the movie descriptions to find what’s best for you. Also don’t sleep on Korean mafia movies either!

[@ghostsdragon9222]

Yakuza could basically hire someone to hire other people to do crimes for them. Basically, the people who do the crime would never know that they are doing it for the Yakuza. So i would see the Yakuza using TOKURYŪ for their benefit. An animal will fight twice as hard when cornered

[@J9be]

Yakuza don't have much power anymore. These guys don't work for the Yakuza.

[@lucas_tvpeople]

This is just like the episode ‘Shut Up and Dance’ in Black Mirror (season 3). The only difference is that it’s not blackmail (supposedly) but the promise of quick cash. I’m just really glad I haven’t encountered something like this yet myself. In my home turf of Southeast Asia, job scams are pretty popular. You apply for a job somewhere abroad for lucrative pay and then get kidnapped and stuck in a prison-like compound. Your passport gets stolen, they beat you up and you have to run scams for a living (like gambling and dating scams). It sucks that crime takes advantage of young people as usual.

[@lucas_tvpeople]

Subscribed btw. I really like your content.

[@mariomene2051]

00:50 😮 @Aniki didn't kill himself! 😂

[@olibo1149]

Prolly got Tokuryoed by the Voice actor of some Generation 3 Pokemon who got addicted to Pachinko and has to pay of his debt.

[@mariomene2051]

@@olibo1149 He insulted the Yakuza‐- publicly humiliated them!

[@quixote_7]

am I watching the future plot of the next Yakuza or judgement game?

[@chrisbooth5286]

I know i will get torn apart by the internet on this... the triads bought the yakuza as one company would by another..this happened about 10 years ago and the yakuza where fadeing at that time.. and in its place gangs smaller but japan loyal are takeing over because of it..i give it another 10 years befor one takes fully over

[@SuperKendoman]

The yami baito thing is pretty scary. And it ciuld be anyone doing this because they get roped into it and continue to do it because the gangs have something to extort them with

[@MrSniffy]

You should add the name of the media you are using to the bottom left corner of the video.

[@parrishwl]

Yakuza Background Music fits perfect 😀love the Games so much

[@Shrouded_reaper]

How do they get burner phones in japan? You have to register your real name and address to get a number.

[@DENZ0R23]

the mgs music is hitting just right

[@brokens1097]

Might as well be a south park episode about a bunch of 5th grade bullies

[@bogbupog]

Mans is the real life Tatara channel 😳

[@mattyounce2486]

The question I have in regards to the child actor that grew up to commit murder for 6 thousand US dollars is was he in the film The Great Yokai War? Aniki mentioned The Kirin Rider and the culprit’s picture as a youngster looked a lot like Tadashi from the great yokai war. I may be mistaken but that’s too depressing if it’s actually the same person.

[@jetstreamdefalpha5411]

WAIT! isnt this what Durarara is about? Omg, i gotta watch that anime

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

Oh that's cold, they're just playing the odds. Putting together a heist crew, but deliberately picking amateurs. That's a pretty unusual pattern, but I kinda get it. Likely high rate of failure, but good security for the mastermind; win some, lose some.. but who cares, it's only the amateurs going to prison if it goes wrong, not you.