Yakuza gang publishes magazine for members
TOKYO (AFP) —
Kenichi Shinoda, the boss of Japan's largest yakuza gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi, gets into a car in Kobe, April 9, 2011.
Japan’s biggest yakuza organised crime group has published a magazine for its members that includes a poetry page and senior gangsters’ fishing diaries, reports said Wednesday.
The eight-page publication has been distributed among the Yamaguchi-gumi, a sprawling syndicate believed to have about 27,700 members, in a bid to strengthen unity in the group, the daily Sankei Shimbun reported.
The front page of the “Yamaguchi-gumi Shinpo” (newsletter) carries a first person piece by the group’s don, Kenichi Shinoda, instructing younger members in the values and disciplines they should observe, the Sankei said.
Shinoda writes that times have become hard for Japan’s mafia and that they can no longer rely on their “brand” to generate profitability in their operations, the Mainichi Shimbun said.
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In fact, there are various signs in local towns and neighborhoods proclaiming themselves to be "yakuza-free" or announcing some campaign to get rid of "boryokudan" ("violent gangs", the official reference to yakuza). There is also a nationwide organization dedicated to the elimination of boryokudan.
