Top 10 TERRIFYING Facts About the YAKUZA (Re-Issue)
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- Hey everyone, explaining the re-issue of this one. We had a frivolous copyright claim against this video, and we had to upload it again. Sorry about that, I hope that those who didn't get to see if the first time, enjoy it :).
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10. Irezumi
9. Huge Membership
8. The Godfather of Godfathers
7. Yubitsume
6. Tadamasa Goto’s Liver
5. The Yakuza are Heavily Involved in Japanese Politics and the Japanese Elite
4. Human Trafficking
3. Host and Hostess Clubs
2. They Are One of the Wealthiest Organized Criminal Syndicates in the World
1. Their Bloodiest War
Source/Further reading:
• Traditional Japanese t...
www.thedailybeast.com/gallerie...
www.britannica.com/topic/yakuza
www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-as...
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www.britannica.com/biography/...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
• Looking For Goto
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
• Yakuza, Organized Crim...
foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/13/t...
• Japan's Yakuza: Inside...
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013...
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014... - Розваги
Sex trafficking is really messed up. No wonder they want to blend in so bad, no one wants to walk around with everyone knowing how scummy and lame they are.
"The numbers have dropped significantly in recent years.. The yakuza is trying harder to blend into society..."
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They say that alot. But i try to believe the opposite.
@@yeshacroe9354 nope, nonsense. go figure
The most terrifying thing are those little white thongs you keep showing them wearing
No.. . "little pricks" can cause great grief.
Their called Fundoshi and their traditional under garments that have been worn for hundreds of years.
I was just reading comments when the first pic apears......wtf he is not lying or exaggerating
Right!
Lol ...Sumo wrestlers as well 😂
I work in the medical field and I’ve actually met people with only two and a half fingers on each hand...
Why at the hospital? Of course bad livers
Kenny bad livers make you lose fingers? I did not know that.
By that time you would think they would be more careful about what they say and do! You should only get so many chances to not F***up!✌
"Liver damage is a sign of pride among the Yakuza".
The opposite of intelligence.
A large number of historically "intelligent" people were also alcoholics. So no. Not the opposite of intelligent. Find one of the many other dumb things they do.
I’m less worried about his Japanese pronunciations and more concerned with his pronunciation of the word “tattoo”!
What's wrong with it you twit?
@@Iorvethfox I know! Why don't you call him a name? You know, like twit! That way we'll be sure to take you seriously and you wont sound at all like you're in junior high! As Metallica says nothing else matters! Aloha nui loa!!
For real
@@suzycreamcheesez4371 are you american because in england twit is something adults say
@@captainkenzie6873 yeah. Junior high students are more likely to use as many profane words as they can in order to prove they're an adult.
Thanks for introducing my country’s stuff to English speakers. It’s well researched. Right now Yamaguchi-gumi have split into three different groups due to their political issues, and ironically all 3 call themselves Yamaguchi-gumi.
The Japanese media is keeping an eye on them in case they start a “war” after the split, because rebellion is absolutely unacceptable in Yakuza’s rule. But no major conflict has occurred except minor incidents.
At last, Yakuza’s stress comes on the first syllable.
The "bloodiest war" is not even a weekend in Detroit.... Sad really and no mater what way you look at it too.
Now, for a price, there are a couple companies in Japan that will make custom prosthetic fingers for members/former members wishing to further hide their identity and blend with the public
Props on the video. That was a lot of great information! Thanks! :3
When your Boss is name Mr. Gorilla, you know things are going to run smoothly or else.
I had heard that there was a museum of some sort in Japan that had the skin of several yakuza, stretched out & in glass cases. I have a friend in Japan whom i had asked about it. He confirmed that it was true. The yakuza had been killed, carefully skinned, tanned, the skin carefully stretched out then framed. The police, many decades ago, had this done so they could study the patterns & more easily identify yakuza members from various gangs. It wasnt until later though that they were donated to a tattoo preservation museum, which also, now apparently, accepts the donated tattooed skin from non-yakuza, normal every day ppl, who have recently died & wanted to donate their tattooed skin.
36 dead that's like a Saturday in Chicago wow
Instead of cutting off my pinkie... They made me snort 5 pounds of wasabi.
It was so hot that I bit off my thumbs. I'm now texting with my feet...
Im sure that happened just as you say it did.
that's horrific, they only made me snort 3 pounds
😂😂😂😂
why comment that? oh oh you are trying to be funny. i hope you get into your dumb arse in a american jail
_My pinky popped up like a piece of carrot and now Yakuza Leader has Dennis Hopper, Waterworld, fake eye._
This is a re-uploaded video but it clearly says so. Thumbs up for honesty.
Yo I started this information dump into my brain when I started yakuza 0 on ps4. I've gotten every release since and even though they do introduce you to slot of Japanese culture but I still had questions. Now here I am diving deeper into real yakuza. Dope vid!
Same
Have you read the article where a journalist got some actual Yakuza to play one of the games? It’s hilarious
Intelligent, entertaining, and prolific. Subscribed.
Kazuma Kiryu and majima goro r still the best yakuza no cap
Kiryu-Chan!
Only members that matter lmao
Was searching for a comment like this lol
U know 💯👊🏾
Uncle Kaz
Thank you Simon what a great vid!
"The 'Liberal Democratic Party' which is a 'right wing party'..." lol I guess you would call the wording of their name an oxymoron to American ears.
This days liberal is tomorrows conservative.
Fps Doug maybe you should take over them again.
@@anttipuhakka5284 A conservative yearns for yesterday while a liberal yearns for tomorrow...
America's Democratic party is considered right wing compared to the rest of the world (it's just we have a republican party that's even further right in comparison), so it's not a huge leap to get that Japan is similar.
The middle of the chest is the place they put the name of their leader but not all of them will be allowed to get it only the most loyal and trustworthy
They do use electric machines to line the tattoos just the shading is done with a Rake for Tebori Tattooing bc they found years ago they could pull better lines with a machine
As a person who has had both gun and stick and poke tattoos, I found stick and poke was nothing compared to the gun in terms of pain.
I think it comes down to artist skill level. It seems like the traditional tattoo “poke” artist have YEARS experience. They also respect the art more than modern artists IMO.
I find it hard to take gangs with cute names like Yama-goochi- goomy seriously. Sounds like a gummy bear brand.
Yummy Coochie Goomy
I know right! They sound like a Yo Gabba Gabba spin off
Lol I had not thought of that!
LOL JAPAN TALK FUNNY HAHA
Twat.
I used to live there...Yama- Mountain. Guchi-Prefecture/State. Gumi- Group/Organization.....There we’re actually a lot of Yakuza’s were I lived, but they never wanted anything to do with foreigners to try not to attract attention....had one gf that used to be/was with a member before....that breakup was interesting.....
aww darn copyright but good to see back up
Maybe “terrifying” is a tad overstated
True. The yakuza are gentrifying, and younger hoodlums have started going unaffiliated.
...I figured the redux was due to some interestingly tattooed gentlemen in suits and missing part of their pinky fingers showing up and having a ...word... with you guys...
@@ToptenzNettop10 _There was no need to threaten. All of you ran to the front door with your Pinkies in medicine bottles. xD_
The sentence "take... a little silver knife - on a table - and you pull it towards you and bend over and your bodyweight will snap your finger off..." doesn't really make a whole lot of sense without a little more info... I assume one sandwiches the 'knife-on-top-of-finger-knuckle' setup between the table and one's own upper body, like leaning, bodily, on top of the knife in order to apply more weight while drawing it toward yourself and over the knuckle in a cutting motion. That's really the only sense I could make of the arrangement in the sentence.
The one thing that he failed to mention was, after the tsunami and Fukushima disaster, the Yakuza actually sent their own men and money into the stricken areas to help with disaster relief. Giving money, food, and other services.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was an ulterior motive, however, it's said that there wasn't.
only about 1% of toxins leave your body through sweat and that's only by accident. Even if body tattoos do prevent sweating (?) that wouldn't be the cause of liver damage.
Frank Cooke 1% by volume or toxicity?
The way he stated it is somewhat misleading. The liver damage is caused by the pigments used to color the tattoos, which are poisonous in larger doses. I'm not sure if this is the case anymore, as they may use more conventional pigments, but back when they needed to make their own some of them were essentially poison.
@@mrkevinhaughey they have liver damage because they are heavy drinkers! they work at night in clubs /Brothels etc . Not because of tattoos thats a myth
WHO ELSE WANTED TO SAY "Stick out like a sore thumb!" at the finger cutting part lol
Irezumi refers to punitive tattoos customary in japan since 400a.d.
The correct term for these tats is horimono
I think you're only partially right. Horimono is a term that can be used for the full bodysuit tattoos but actually has to do with wood or sword carvings and irezumi is more of a general word for tattoo or tattooing.
Top terrifying thing about Yakuza... they walk around in tight, white, underwear?
Lol, ah, my eyes!!!
It's a strip of cloth called a "fundoshi".
And they throw bikes at you
Yeah aight go say that in their face
chiprbob nothing that looks like that should start with "fun"
12:03 Wow, that was zero to 100 right there. Great job on the videos though!
That orange and white cup the u-gummie's drinking from...Is that a "what-a-burger cup"????.....?
the fun thing is the red light district in the netherlands is highly regulated seperating it from humam trafficking. the renters of windows have to do multiple checks to make sure the women and man are self employed and not pimped
that bit about the titoo's was lit
Interesting.I enjoyed this video.
The strip of un-inked skin is a sweat channel and tanto is the name of a blade profile. Nice vid tho!
Loved it..thanks
New subbie,great video!👍👍👍👍❤️🇨🇦
2:12 homeboy on the right doesn’t even have tattoos he just wanted to pose in his undies
Homie wanted to show off
I lived in the hometown of Taoka. I ate at one of the family noodle shops they use for money laundering. lol
How many fooking UA-cam channels is this dude on?!?
13JBIZZO not enough !
Your mistake is thinking this guy is real. He's more of a philosophy.
UA-cam is something Mr.Whistler does on his spare time.His real job is protecting every western leader.He is the reason our leaders stay safe.
He actually owns all the channels on UA-cam and just rents them out
I hear he also runs an underground fight club and is still undefeated to this day.
Kuma means "bear" in Japanese. The name Kubo means 'sunken ground'; variously written, mostly with characters used phonetically. Found mostly in western Japan, apparently taken from several habitational names. Many unrelated families descend from various branches of the Taira, Minamoto, and other great families
So many things from Yakuza Kiwami make terrifying sense now...
6:16 Yoshiwara Tsunagi on the cloth.. how appropriate.
I didn’t see anything “terrifying” here. I was expecting something different.
The pinky finger is control of a Katana. Loss of the pinky makes one rely on others.
Ooh don't worry Simon... I knew as soon as you said Yakuuza instead of Yakuza that you would struggle with the pronunciation 😀. It's the info that matters!
The first thing I learned from it, many years ago, is the cut-off pink.
Do they post their irezumis on LinkedIn?
Japan does not usually report crimes
I'm not making this up, this actually happened.
I knew a guy who was talented jazz pianist and worked in Japan for many years.
One day, while playing in the hotel ballroom, two Japanese men in suits approached him and offered him raw money to play the Godfather theme.
He asked what it was for, they said it was their bosses birthday.
Needless to say he didn't refuse their offer and played it twice, when the Yamaguchi-gumi boss walked in and when he left.
Yikes. As a father and husband, I will never wish to come across this criminal organization.
"Wickedking" ladies and gentlemen
Can't get that sick forth fighting style without the hostess clubs
To pronounce Irezumi is like this
I - sounds like short 'e'
Re - sounds like Ray
Zu - sounds like 'zoo'
Mi - sounds like 'me'
More like reh than ray
Actually when its a big tattoo they will pull lines with a machine, then use the bamboo for the color
Aurora Bennett nope, both are valid approaches. Sometimes it's lined with machine and filled in with tebori. Sometimes it's done all with machine, sometimes all tebori. Depends on the artist.
Here's one pronunciation suggestion - when pronouncing Yakuza you don't put the accent on the middle syllable - Japanese pronunciation, in general, doesn't accent syllables (I'm not Japanese, but my wife was)
So liver damage boosts pride yet a leader sold out his own organization to get transplant and then skipped the line of people waiting for years probably then writes about the life to profit or donated like they said it was 400k but actually 1 million and then became a monk
Top terrifying facts about the corruption of the government allowing the Yakuza to run unchecked. Wouldn’t take long to rid themselves of the problem with strong government leadership and harsh punishment
I know it's along time ago but the volume of factual errors in this video is amazing.
GREAT VIDEO.................
#11- they eat alot of sushi..so their chances of having tapeworms is pretty high
well done!
Number 2 on this list doesn't surprise me one little bit.
If i was a Yakuza I'll be known as Nubz...😂😂I'll have no fingers
I couldn't be bothered to scroll down through all the comments to see how many times this has already been stated, but Kubo does not mean bear. The Japanese word for bear is kuma (koo-ma, emphasis on the koo). Kubo is a family name.
A mafia boss forced to resign?! Never heard that before lol
Frank Costello , Joe Bonanno
Women: No more sex tourism!!!
Yakuza: OK we'll bring the women here.
Women: That's not what we meant.
Yakuza: Don't care.
Ya - ku - za say it with me
The new boss also started in fast and furious Tokyo drift.
Cool video! I lived in Japan and i never felt safer... crime rate is extremely low and alot has to do with the Yakusa and their brutal ways. Petty criminals and crimes that don’t sit well with them get punished severely... basically they have a monopoly on crime
I walked dark streets at night in Yokohama several times looking for food shops, felt safe and I'm female
_@ __15:40__ That last picture of the Yakuza leader, looks like he says, _*_"Hey Yo, Gee!!"_*_ alot._
_Hopefully, while cutting my pinky, it will pop-up like a piece of carrot and cause Yakuza Leader to have Dennis Hopper, Waterworld, fake eye._
tattoo's block sweating? I would like to know where you got that info from hahaha
Its pretty easy to find out if you do some research. You can also talk to some tattoo artists and they will tell you.
I've been tattooing since 1995, and covered from neck to ankles and have never heard of this nor have any problems sweating myself.
A shame about the copyright strike. Oh well. It couldn't be helped. I saw the other one. It was okay.
Broken Bridge at least it didn't stick. Otherwise this video would stop at 15:59
Hey thanks for the like TopTenz it means a lot.
You and I have a very different definition of "terrifying".
enjoyed it the first time and the second time
At least the complainer wasn't the Yamaguchi-gumi.
Crazy cuz in Okinawa in order to get anything--ahem hash--you had to go through the Yakuza.
thx this will help me start my yakuza
"Will try to pronounce all the words, but sorry if there are some difficult ones"
*instantly mispronounces yakuza*
my *exact* thought
I'm American. I also say. Ya-koo-za . What is the proper pronunciation?
Please provide example
@@jl-ee5jd you can see the mistake in your own comment. You draw the ku too long. The ku is short. Like the beginning of cooking.
I’ve heard a number of Brits say the word and they all emphasize the second syllable. Is that something to do with the normal British pronunciation?
More like most infamous facts about the yakuza.
There is a Yakuza - Ninyendi interesting connection.
please do a video with your shirt off kthnx ;)
Simon automatically gets thumbs up from me.
oh how funny... I keep metal fork on me in case someone attacks me on the street so I can fork their eye out. Having to try to cut a cow eyeball in class, I would assume it needs quite a bit of a force to actually fork it out but I still think getting stabbed in the eye is no fun thing.
Triads next please
I suppose that Yakuza members now cut their toes, it is easier to hide and doesn't hinder their fighting ability abilities as losing a finger does.
Hektols except for the hobbling they would do... your toes are important to walking properly...
The whole idea of having the pinky cut off was to make fighting harder. It's part of the punishment.
They flex the levers 😂😂😂
15:34 that dude on the left really looks like Beat Takeshi
Probably is.
Kazama Kyriu is the coolest gangster/yakuza ever ..
[Yakuza games]
Goro
Mr shakedown gon get chaaa
the japanese pronunciation disclaimer was unnecessary after you said "yakooza"
The more you know
Johnny X
And knowing is half the battle, G.I. Joe!! ✊
Please! How about a UA-cam app that plays while closed and doesn’t give you twenty minute commercials
it exists . called UA-cam premium . but you have to pay .
Just use an adblocker
UA-cam premium... They literally show it every time you open the app.
What about the Triads? They do "stuff" right?
Another challenge for Mr.Whistler?Nahh,someone else will take care of his light work.
Steven Martinek no tattoo on Mr. Whistler.
My Sensei (71 years, 8th Dan Hanshi, Kendo) told me: One can easily handle a sword with the pinky missing. He thinks that this is a myth.
Watching him doing it by not using his I trust he is right...
Tattoos don't block sweat, that has *recently* been disproven