After a century in operation, Japan’s largest organized crime group is planning to split, a move that has law enforcement officials on edge, reports Fuji News Network (Aug. 27).
The Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi will splinter into one faction of gangs that supports current top boss Shinobu Tsukasa, 73, and another that opposes him.
Approximately 20 affiliate gangs support Tsukasa, who is also known as Kenichi Shinoda. The dissenting gangs include the Yamaken-gumi, the Takumi-gumi and Kyoyu-kai.
The cause? Economic resource restriction:
“Money matters led the groups to split,” Mizoguchi said at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. The Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi formed last month as a rival gang to the Yamaguchi-gumi. “The Yamaguchi-gumi was taking money from group bosses. Membership dues are 1.15 million yen for bosses, with further expenses of 100,000 yen (existing on top of that).”
On top of this, Mizoguchi said gifts given during summer and winter holidays, as well as a birthday presents for top boss Shinobu Tsukasa, meant that finances in organizations were worsening.
This is in contrast to the mergers of Japanese criminal gangs which occurred when resources were flush:
During the early 1980s, however, the latter group, which relies on gambling for revenue, was hardly an ally.
The had Kyokuto-kai ran afoul of the Sumiyoshi-kai, then known as the Sumiyoshi Rengo-kai, over the control of turf. By 1983, an all-out war was underway. The following year, Matsuyama was behind the resolution, which involved a merger of forces between the two gangs.
A person working for a front company of the Yamaguchi-gumi member tells the magazine that the resolution coincided with the emergence of the asset-inflated “bubble” economy, the halcyon days for yakuza in Japan.
Resource restriction eliminates the amygdala soothing effects of dopamine. If the Yakuza today were enjoying a period of resource glut, with money flowing everywhere, nobody would have gotten irritated enough to precipitate a split. Instead, resources were growing scant, tempers were getting irritated, and all of a sudden, all you were waiting on was the straw that broke the camel’s back. It is analogous to what we will see the in the US over the next few years as our economy grinds along.
The real economic collapse is still years, if not decades away, however. When that hits, splintering will occur everywhere – along nationalistic lines, religious lines, racial lines, ethnic lines, and even geographic lines at the neighborhood level.
Factor it into your planning.
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I think the hostile elite have the ability to cause crashes and disruptions when it suits them. I don’t think they are going to wait decades to unleash chaos. They seem to be getting jittery as their grip is loosening. I expect them to initiate some major disruptions sooner rather than later. Whites are hardening against establishment leaders. Blacks in particular are not as useful to the elites anymore since leaving the liberal white plantation and reverting to their explicit black led anti-white tribalism. Hostile elites have lost their momentum, are weak and yet overconfident. Let’s hope they make mistakes we can capitalize on. Those living on the racial fault lines should be looking for better places to ride out this storm.
I believe our hostile elite ride the same cycles of history as all past elites once did. The current empire of debt money and usury, in place since the restoration of the English monarchy, has reached the limits of its’ greed. This, too, shall pass; and as AC says, the wolves will hunt once more.
The Japanese have to be the most interesting people on the planet. It seems to me, as an outsider, that they try to make a place for all segments of society while also damping down their harm or disruption to the society as a whole. So some join the Yakuza and a little crime is allowed but if they start dealing hard drugs the police come down on them like a ton of bricks. Other less harmful crimes they seem to ignore. In the US we really don’t seem to make this distinction. I couldn’t live like the Japanese due to, from their standpoint, my excessive individualism but I can readily see they have one of the best run societies on the planet from the vantage point of the average person in the society.
They also seem to understand teenagers. They keep them busy all the time to work off some of their tendency for mischief.
I’ve read a fair amount about them and where as we have interlocking separate government structures they have multiple, multiple interlocking structures balancing each other in a myriad of complicated ways. I admire them very much.