Japanese Yakuza vs Chinese Triad - Which is the Deadlier Mafia?
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- You’re probably less familiar with the secretive, shady underworld of the Asian mafias, but these criminal enterprises have centuries of experience in violence, crime and deception and can give all those other gangs a run for their money. Of the two most famous though, Japanese Yakuza and Chinese Triad - which is the deadlier mafia? Check out today's new epic video to find out which criminal organization is the real boss!
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Chinese Triads: We have tons of money and manpower.
Yakuza: We have the Mad Dog of Shimano and the Dragon of Dojima.
@Jamal jamshaid Dame dane dame yo dame na no yo
They have Gojira
I knew this comments section would be filled with Yakuza fans, and it did not disappoint
Chinese Communist Party - We created the wuhan virus !
@@freddiemercury2075 the virus is a group of drones, flying and spying on america
This is why we bigfoots stay deep in the wilderness away from organized crime
You again?
@@ronin2387 yes it's me again
Yo
@Rafi Rizqullah Hello mr Rizqullah
@@justarandompersonontheinte334 How's it going person
To be honest with you I wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of either.
U wouldnt wanna be on the wrong side of ANY mafia...
you dont want to get on the radar of any gangs or govs asian or otherwise tbh unless your bruce lee and you know 100 more bruce lees and your boss is either the president of a country.... if your born into organised crime family... then condolences to you and your family members etc etc
Yakuza are slightly better. As they often dont want civilians got caught up in their activity. Bring too much heat from the public and the police.
Don't be on the wrong side of any organized crime. It will be the last mistake you'll ever make.
Can't say which is which. There's lots of mafias and terrorists organisations. I like to pick, but that would just make me dumb.
The yakuza is more powerful cuz they have at least eight games made after them.
💡
Hona mata ne, kiryu chan
Sleeping dogs is about the triad
But its actually just 90% comedy
And Baka Mitai
Nah the LGBT community now that’s a scary gang
do they illegally sell drugs
(not some of them, do ALL of them sell drugs)?
As an asexual I regularly commit heinous crimes such as staying up past 11, playing Stardew valley during online lectures and procrastinating essays
@@emilybarclay8831 😂😂
@@emilybarclay8831 you are breaking laws so badly that even gta online players aren't breaking laws to your extent
@@vishwanathasharma1409 you think that’s bad? I ate the last creme egg from the family supply, frankly I should be behind bars
I`m Japanese and this show is pretty accurate about Yakuza, which is amazing.
But there is two thing I wanna discuss, or add to this program.
Yamaguchi gumi had a huge internal feud, split in three, and now even more, causing them all to lose the power.
This event took place 5 years ago, and no one thought this could ever happen.
Another one goes for kudo kai, the one that`s notorious and not under Yamaguchi gumi.
They didn`t have any problem with Yamaguchi internal feud, but they got crushed by police.
This happened just last year, and both Yamaguchi and Kudo kai incident was a HUGE breaking news, because we thought that`s never gonna happen.
I guess our new political regime is really hawky, and I like it, atleast for now.
Combining what you said with the video, it sounds like the Kudo Kai drew attention to themselves.
Interesting. Then i read that Police is babysitting yakuza because of war and the Olympics
Well guess you'd be a fan of durarara!
The emperor needs to step in...
@@Elozero250 well, like many japanese would say, yakuza are necessary evil. Either it's them or street gangs, or even worse, triad.
Either way, that’s going to be a lot of missing fingers.
and family members and testicals
Bruhh it crazy how that doesn’t even made sense but had a lot of like 😑what do u even mean a lot of missing fingers I am confused
@@tingling1177 it makes perfect sense.. it’s a known tradition of certain Asian gangs, to remove fingers?
It’s a very common trope.
@@tingling1177 did you even watch the video?
@@tingling1177 bro you should delete this comment, its embarrassing
The triads used to sell pirated DVDs in my area from poorly recorded films in cinemas, Before the days that Internet streaming was common place. If their in the rural valleys of Wales they must be everywhere.
Like they said, the larger crime organisations remain hiddne, that probably explains why Yakuza has smaller numbers than we think, when hypothetically it has more than that, but i don't really know.
lol those are not the triads... you mean the elderly man or woman on the street??? they are being used by the triads/organised crime... you probably wont ever trace it back to a triad
@@antwango no from what I remember years ago, they would send runners from Major cities like London to do things like selling counterfeit goods, drugs and in this case pirated Movies
@@TheConnorboii yeah, i remember a similar experience in wales
They used to get in trouble with rival gangs or the police. So they fled London, Manchester and Birmingham to go to smaller places like Wales.
The Triads: I have a army.
The Yakuza: We have a Kiryu.
Korean Mafia: We have CSGO pros.
Meanwhile Claude just enjoy watching only player gta 3 who he is
Triads: we have Wei Shen and Mr Tong
@itz NoobDerric Cj was there helped woozie
@@aryabratsahoo7474 they have Joon gi Han
Sleeping Dogs v.s Yakuza 0
Yakuza 0,😲 hundred times Yakuza 0
I beat that game
More like kiryu vs lau ka long
Sleeping dogs was more focussed for western audience whereas yakuza is more focused towards audience interested in recent Japanese culture
Sleeping Dogs all the way hands down the best from jumping a car to another and the fighting just the best
this is one of those cases where deadlier is not necessarily more dangerous.
while the yakuza are shown to be more brutal and far deadlier, the triad's hold on global crime is vastly VASTLY larger than the yakuza's.
chinese triad squads have even targeted the video game industry,generating massive amounts of profit from in-game economies, they are everywhere
Don’t forget theres tons of movies that relates to Triads such as the Young and Dangerous series
can you explain the video game part please???
@@luidiquique6549 Tencent, NetEase
Quite the opposite, the triads are far more brutal than yakuza, they have no code of honor
@@luidiquique6549 literally, runescape arena gambling.
Yakuza has the power of hype and weebs. Triads have the power of reality.
Yet the triads stay out of Japan 😂
The Yakuza make a lot more money though.
@M M i think it's sarcastic or a joke
The Yakuza is more dangerous as they are in every aspect of Japanese business and government, they are not as violent because they typically do not need to be
Guess you are too involved in pop culture that you stared thinking that yakuzas doesn’t exist
First rule of Fight Club: don’t talk about fight club.
I heard a phrase like this somewhere where did it come from?
You just broke the 1st rule 😠
@@walangaccount8984 the movie Fight Club. Very awesome would recommend.
2nd rule of fight club: You do not talk about fight club
@@walangaccount8984 haha
"Chinese Nationalist Party" *shows communist flag
Lol
😆😆😆
At least some people noticed that error
@@ruebenjesse what
@@ruebenjesse I mean..."error."
I suspect they are equally brutal when roused to battle.
I agree
It's either you get attacked by men carrying Katanas or men carrying butcher knives
@@mariacorazondevelos7178 or worse
@@Phil-D83 well if it's the Yakuza you lose a finger but if it's the Triads you'll probably get the "death by a thousand cuts" method
So basically
Wei Shen vs Kiryu Chan
Quite hard to chose actually 💀.
SPOILER ALERT
Lau Ka Long got clapped already
Wei shen is basically Bruce lee
isn't he from Hong Kong
@simpforme welp not the same tho
Wei Shen is undercover cop
Grove street vs Los Angles Police Department
Yakuza member: *accidentally deleted boss's saved game
Yakuza member's finger: oh boi ...
Yakuza: cut my pinky finger
John Wick: Hold my ring
john wick is half chinese you know too?
@@herohamza1196 no, he's Belarusian
Claude ......
@@herohamza1196 what?
Lol
The only way to settle this is a fight between Kiryu Kazuma and Wei Shen
Lets be honest Kiryu is winning
@@Jack-hm8we i mean wei shei can heal in seconds tho
@@faceless483 Assuming no healing, Kiryu probably claps. He canonically fought 2 tigers and 100 men on separate occasions and won.
Addicted to Vtubers
And dont forget dragon spirit and the hilariously OP komaki tiger drop move too
Would Lao Gui be involved considering Triad would hire him to take out Tojo members.
When he say you know
I thaught he would say
*YOU KNOW THE RULES AND SO DO I....*
Never gonna gife you up!!
Never gonna let you down
@@saampieee never gonna let you cry!!
Never gonna say goodbye
Y E S
In the current state, the Yakuza is weak, it's a mere shadow of it's former state thanks to the laws.
In the past year japan laws have made it hard for the Yakuza. They cracked down on them. They have fallen...
In Japan there's a whole industry that provides prosthetic fingers for former Yakuza members to help them blend in with society.
The Japanese government has really started clamping down on the Yakuza recently and they've lost a lot of their power in Japan.
They've brought in loads of new laws that have changed everything. They used to operate almost openly and even government officials were well known to take money from them etc. The blind eye thing has changed hugely which is exactly why they've suddenly started to operate in other countries.
Oh and apparently there's a fairly big market in fake figure tips in Japan for exmembers.
@SCP Foundation oh I doubt they'll ever totally stop existing, it appears that they are just moving more underground and putting more money into legitimate businesses and putting on a "reformed" face to the world.
Unfortunately, they mentioned it a bit in the video but didn't explain it really, the fact they are going underground means that they are also becoming more violent and they are losing the tiny but real positive connection they had to the public in the areas they operate in and the traditions which often dictated that where possible you keep the public and outsiders out of their arguments, fights and didn't risk hurting innocents.
All gangs are starting to disappear, but out of these 2, Triads are deadlier
Lil biased?
@@FutureCivilWarHero It's simply a reality
@ValiantHu05 in your imagination maybe
1:39 Everybody gangsta when Louis Lopez just vibing tho
9:42 I saw that coming, thanks to Yakuza 7. 11:40 Love the quote, bro.
I’m from Long Beach Cali and me and my boys are part of the ABZ gang, but back in the 90’s my dad and his gang faced against the Wah Ching and them Wah Chings are tough like really tough. They killed over 42 members of the ABZ gang but we still got them back way worst. The Wah Ching is basically a Mini triad but the 14k Triads stepped in and things hit really serious. We been fighting for many years now to the point where we just stop gang banging. The casualty on both sides were 100+ deaths and 100+ injuries as well as arrest. I’d say that the Triads are far stronger than the Yakuza due to them having lack of evidence of them being all big and tough 🤷♂️
But uh today we still beef with the Triads and Wah Ching but obit fist to fist fight in school and outside of school, as well as some shootings. Mainly the West side ABZ and Wah Ching and triads, El Monte and San Francisco is where we beef
Crazy that I recently watched the movie war which is exactly related to the Yakuza vs. Triads
And plot twist jet li won
Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
your're the dragon warrior . LOL
I think I'd prefer Yakuza more. They're not political.
Yes did u see the White shirt in Hong Kong beating up protester? The triad are the one to be feared. They are in so much country too
Bro the yakuza basically runs the right wing I japan
They extort Corporations and have Politicians in their pockets !.....wrong !
Yakuza is based solely in Japan only. Just like Japanese people. The Triads are all over the world based in every Chinatown like Chinese people. The Fentanyl crisis is perpetrated by the Triads. Triads got their name from the main 3 island points Hong Kong Taiwan Macau.
Yakuza probably have links to Honolulu and California populations, just less obvious since they would prefer staying quiet and making money. Also, Triads got their name from an Englishman who noticed the Chinese criminal groups were obsessed with the number 3.
@@jk3jk35 also the main symbol for the Triads is the Triangle also called a Triad
Just my personal opinion. I like Yakuza because they are portrayed as badasses in popular media. But in the question of which is more deadlier, I think the triads would win, considering their sheer Manpower. But outside of numbers, the defining factor, is that the Yakuza are still following some sort of code and honor, something that may be exploited by rival organizations. In a way, that makes Yakuza more predictable than the opposition.
They fought in WW2 and Japan massacred them
The Triads aren't even mafia. The Triads originated from anti-Qing people. They want to revive the Ming Dynasty
depends on the strength of each individual.
Lol only there way more Chinese people so it will not be one against one
@@Don-po8vl fair point
@Fei Long 黄飞龙 lol for some reason I think you are not objective in the matter but fair enough that’s your opinion 👍
I played the games and I think I'll side with Kazuma Kiryu
dont forget with goro
@@alphariz Don't forget his bro, Taiga, and smug loan shark who kicks anyone and everyone. And man child for the DQ fans.
You know that's just a game right?
It's not just a game for me. It's 4 Life! I think. 🤔
@@jamalpitts3601 yea but also pretty accurate about Yakuza life
They should make a video explaining how mafia is almost gone now, I understand that it mainly had to do with RICO but I think it’s be cool if The Infographics made a video on it
Thank you for this video! 👍🏼
These videos are great 👍 👌 .
I heard the triads went to Japan and took over a yakuza racket.
I sense many violent acts in the future.
HIGHLY doubt that. No gang is going to another gangs home turf (especially with an entity like Yakuza who are said to have their fingers throughout the Japanese government and mega industry including total control over the home country) and just going to take over the home turf. Extremely extremely unlikely.
@@stealthworx4371 it’s nearly the opposite currently, the Yakuza are nothing more than the government’s pet as shown in Vice’s interview (On YT), it’s quite sad tbh. The authorities in Japan have their fingers wrapped around the Yakuza and in the interview even “elder” members said they been on a drastic decline.
Gang categories in Japan;
-yakuza OG (old men)
-younger yakuza after yamagauchi split
-hangure
-crip (Hachioji short line, Omiya crips)
-bosozoku
-color gangs (obsolete)
-foreign mafias
-Nigerian
-high school girls
if you guys can find it. watch the hong kong triad films called "Young and Dangerous" it is a great story based on comics
The Chinese triads are more deadly the yakuza is going extinct everybody in Japan is getting old vice did a documentary on this
contraception works
Nah. Its just that they are not as lucrative anymore. Its just not much money to be gain being a member of yakuza like it used to be.
Triads are disappearing too
Based. Yakuza is soo highly internally functioning even the video misses on what they're are taking on, Plus Chinese Triads work only for Profits But Yakuza gets way more deadly with morales included, never forget Yakuzas have more international assets and operations going on which you don't even know about.
Plus younger generation aren’t having children and a lot of them are now getting waifus. Although I dislike anime at least it literally prevents violence.
The word yakuza has the accent on the first syllable. The word comes from ya ‘eight’ + ku ‘nine’ + za ‘three,' referring to the worst hand in a gambling game.
I wish there was another sleeping dogs
Yes!! I honestly wonder why they haven't made another yet.
@@KAIZENURAMESHI you think someone will hopefully pick the title up?
I swear I can comment sleeping dogs deserves a sequel on documentary about North Korea and get tons of likes.
YOU NEED PORK BUN!!!!
Yea Japan play as det. Yamamoto we need a Japanese free roam game they have nice motor ways
You should do a video about the Russian Mob. I've heard they're the oldest modern organized crime franchise
I like how they used the logos in GTA 3 @11:45
I love the attention to detail
Triad Member: Accidentally spills some water
Triad Superior: Clean that up
Yakuza Member: Spills Water
Yakuza Superior: *Off with your fingers*
Its easy to decide which is more scary. Just try to make a movie about them without consulting them and see what happens.
Fun fact: Yakuza is often depicted as typical comedic antogonists
Yes because of that yakuza japan made a video game.
ive been obsessed with yakuza ever since i played a game based on it, i forget the name but the main character is named kiryu
Hmm sure it isn’t kiryu simulator 0
You mean Real Estate Simulator 0?
Wot
Ryu ga gotoku
You mean Empty Lot Seeker? That was a great game, especially when that guy with the silver hand used the force to turn off electricity.
Been waiting on this one
Anyone else love this particular narrator ?
Yup!
Yup
No one:
Info graphic show: YAKUUUUZA VS TRRRIIIIIADS
Virtual hugs to early squad
stop
Bot you always say that
@@MrMario-yg3qc like farming goes brr
You were first
answer: whoever has the most firepower
Yakuza is more tougher, why? The common people of Japan supports them, cause they always there to give any support to the people when a disaster or wreck havoc. While Triad, only look for themselves
that’s bc the yazkuza actually helps the ppl lol
Any chance for an in depth Sicilian Mafia video?
The Don sends his regards.
Yakuza bribing the authorities?
Triads: Such amateurs we plant moles IN the police force bet nobody here knows about Infernal Affairs
🤫🤫🤫
How would anyone not know about internal affairs? It’s THE best Hong Kong movie ever made!
UNDERRATED
You mean Sharivan Next Generation?
Yakuza: we cut fingers😁
Triads: we cut u with katanas a hundred times😈
So basically, Yakuza VS. Sleeping Dogs.
I love watching these videos
Pretty accurate info, especially info about the Chinese triad.
The best analogy I can think of for this famous gangster rivalry is “Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter” which is the best?? The debate rages on.👍
This is pretty cool. Unfortunately I never see anything about the Irish mob which is a shame because I'd like to learn more about it on account of my family having past ties to it.
Yesss I love your vids
idk man, heard the 4th chairman never kills.......and neither does the mad dog of Shimano.
Rush Hour And CSI Miami tought me about these Gangs there Pressure 💪💯
I got into a dispute with the previous owner of a Chinese fast food shop, I had taken over. After nearly two years of letters from her solicitor and a commercial debt collecting company, demanding inflated amount of money, I received a visit from 3 Triad members, who came into the shop one evening and demanded we pay, and making clear with threats to my person and the shop. I refuse to pay up, this resulted in a campaign of window smashing for next six months and threatening phones calls for the next eight. She also past on a messages through the Chinese community, that if I continued to not pay, that she have ask the Triad gangs, to target my two young sons for a beating, they were at the time only 5 and 6 years old. During the whole time this happened, I made no comment to the Triads, and sought the help of the police and our solicitor, and put wire mesh over the windows. The Triads got bored and decided to give my mother a final call, on how I would suffer, and should pay up now. I have heard nothing since.
How’s stuff now?
@@ogvamp2 Everything fine now, thinks for asking. Triad are nothing but brainless simple thugs, violent for sure, if you insult them, like I said, they got bored asking for money, heard nothing since.
@@ogvamp2 RIP
Sounds like Bruce Lee with guns vs John Wick with katana
video in 1 second: wei shen vs kazuma kiryu
Not really a hard choice when you consider each of the respective gangs country populations, but then you hear that 1 out of 6 people are triads in a country of several billion...
When I read the title and saw Yakuza, I instantly thought of:
*DAME DA NE*
Dame yo
Dame na no yo
Two great reads all about Asian International Organized Crime , " The Dragon Syndicates " about the history and growth of Chinese Triads international operations and, " Yakuza " , history of the Japanese Mafia , its history and and moneymaking operations.
Next time try "Yakuza vs CCP". That would be more fitting.
Not really
China under the CCP is harsh on organised crimes and generally triads there keep a low profile, since any conviction will usually result in death sentence via firing squad. Not jail sentence like in other countries.
@@notagain2856 CCP is by itself a criminals enterprise. I think you are not seeing the elephant in the room here 🐘.
Everything that goes down there is approved by the CCP. Even harvesting prisoner's organs and selling them in the black market. They own it all.
By the time you finish reading this they will probably go through you emails and browser history and own you too.
Fede Yea but comparing organized crime organizations with thousands of members to an authoritarian regime that controls the worlds largest country is like comparing some petty thief to a serial killer.
Ouch... So edgy I cut myself 🤡
This guy has some amazingly informed videos...but this isn't one of them. Love the channel though😅
everybody gangster till the triads and yakuza join forces
Actually they do work from time to time especially during the time of Yamaguchi-Gumi Yakuza war with the Triads supplying arms to them
@@mariacorazondevelos7178 Really? That cool.
That Thumbnail tho of Yakuza welding a katana and Triad welding a gun is epic
video starts at 2:30
Mountain Cloud Boyz for life homie!
Yukuza all the way tbe got KIRYU CHAN and majima san
I noticed that both Yakuza and Triads will cut off fingers as punishment. I wonder why they have the same form of punishment. Did both groups originally stem from a single group?
ugh, just the thought of having one's winkie tattooed makes me wince, bad enough my having less skin than there should be down there, let alone having a traditional tattoo job on it!!! :S
Bro i literally can ask anything and yall got at least one vid
I just realized the Yakuza mafia symbol is the same as the biohazard symbol.
Next can you do one about the Chicago street gangs like 63th street gang and the bds
"Who's worse, the Triads or Yakuza?"
"Antifa."
"That... wasn't an option"
"No, it wasn't. Yet here we are.
the way Antifa have destroyed small businesses in the US is pretty scary and disgusting and yet they are called "heroes" by the corrupt bias leftist media.
Hm, the description of organized crime describes most governments.
Anybody who think the Yakuza are more powerful than the Triads are delusional weebs.
Yet they still stay outta japan
@@txt2spchman351Yakuza are broke and disappearing, and they also don’t leave japan. Your point?
Triads (and yes, it has to be plural) is not a mafia... It's a collection of smaller gangs. There's almost no unity among them. It's a bit like talking about the Mexican gangs as a single organization.
bro what are you saying theres 20k in the biggest triad
What does this even mean lol? The Italian mafia and the Japanese Yakuza aren’t a single organisation either. They’re just terms denoting organised crime associated with a particular ethnic group. Large triad organisations like the Sun Yee On and the 14K have over 20,000 members each - definitely not small.
Mexican gangs or cartels? You don’t look like you know much about triads. They are different from street gangsters.
4:13 ALIENS? THEY GO I WANT SOME
either the infographics reuses their characters or the guy with the afro hair has like 200 jobs at this point
He rivals Johnny Sins Himself
The Yakuza is far more influential and powerful than the Triad, the reason Yakuza is so hard to take out is they have a structure almost identical to he Sicilian Mafia although its members are far more dedicated to their superiors, they are ready to sacrifice for one another like brothers, so in the sense they are an actual "family", they don't just use that word as an empty slogan.
Yakuza got taken down. They are only a shadow of their former self and actually it’s quite the opposite considering the triads have legit put politicians into office and also run in every Chinatown on the globe
Yakuza - " we are superior "
Deadpool - " Time to take another trip to Japan...
At 3:01, it’s the wrong emblem it’s white sun blue sky emblem.
11:44 I've been waiting for this clash since I started playing GTA 3.
This seems like this oughtta be on deadliest warriors
Or, they both fight for a girl named haruko while a man with questionable mental health is running to fight with another guy but them the guy destroys him and he's kinda happy about it...
Is this a Yakuza 6 reference?
Game reference I assume?
?
This is foreshadowing
I dont knoooow....maaaybe
Gotta love the gta3 logos 😁
Neither of these hold even a candle when compared to the tiger mafia.