Japan is the only country in the world that recognizes the legitimacy of gangsters.
As long as the gang operates under existing laws, it is issued an approval certificate.
This social system also allows Japanese dramas and Japanese cartoons to have a large number of violent groups and bad teenagers, such as the classic Japanese drama "My boss my hero" and "Renxia Caretaker/Renxia Caregiver/Renxia Carefree/Renxia", in which the protagonist is the underworld background.
Marvel has superheroes, and the underworld in Japanese comics is equivalent to superheroes.
The most famous of these is the Yamaguchi Group.
Today, this big gang with a hundred-year history is facing disintegration.
The Yamaguchi Group, with Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture as its headquarters, is designated as one of the three major violent groups in Japan, along with sumiyoshikai and Inagawakai.
Among the three giants, the strongest is the Yamaguchi group.
The core structure of the Yamaguchi group is a "group leader", several "brothers", and dozens of "Wakaka", but each core member also has dozens to thousands of followers.
In this pyramid-shaped structure are more than 10,000 members of the Yamaguchi group, who are distributed in different parts of Japan.
According to the American economic magazine Fortune, yamaguchi group's income from drug trafficking and illegal gambling alone can reach 6.6 billion yen, which is equivalent to ... Renminbi.
In fact, the Yamaguchi group is not only a black business, they are deeply involved in the Japanese economy through business channels, involving less than the field.
However, this black monster that has entrenched in Japanese society is in a state of division.
Ever since Shinoda Kenichi became the leader of the Rokushiro Group, the Yamaguchi group began to split
Shinoda Kenichi was born in the Nagoya Kodokai, and after he became the sixth generation, friction began between the Kodokai, the kobe headquarters directly subordinate groups, and the Yamaken group, and then began to form groups to fight.
BTW, it is estimated that the small partners who often watch the Japanese manga, will certainly not be unfamiliar with the above names.
During the Yamaguchi clan's three generations, the Yamaguchi clan was already the largest force in the community, and this strong position was maintained until Shinoda came to power.
However, after Shinoda took power, he tried to change the previous pattern and cultivate the Hongdao Association to become bigger, which made the Yamaken group very dissatisfied.
In addition, there are often unclear accounts in the community, especially Shinoda Kenichi has a monthly fee of 1 million yen, which is never disclosed for purpose, which makes internal opinions very big.
Today, under the big tree of the Yamaguchi Group, there are three factions, the Kobe Yamaguchi Group, represented by the Rokuyomi Yamaguchi Group, represented by the Kodokai clan members, and the Kobe Yamaguchi Group, which is derived from the Kobe Yamaguchi Group.
In the more than a hundred years since Yamaguchi formed the regiment in 1915, there has never been such a large-scale division and infighting.
This also corresponds to the universal thesis in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that "long-term unity must be combined, and long-term integration must be divided".
The internal division of the Yamaguchi group has emerged since 2016, and by this year, the three factions have been intolerable, hitting each other and pecking at each other.
We see gang fires, assassinations, ambushes in cars, etc. in movies and television, which are being staged on the streets of Japan.
In April, the top brass of the Kobe Yamaguchi group was stabbed with a knife by the Assassins, and in August, members of the three factions suffered a gun battle.
These two events marked the infighting in the Yamaguchi group, which had reached an irreparable point.
In Japan, gangsters such as the Yamaguchi group are shunned by both the police and ordinary citizens.
But as the three-way struggle becomes more and more intense, it also brings danger to people's daily lives.
At the Yamaguchi base camp, many citizens took to the streets to demonstrate, asking the government to take measures against the gang scuffle, but with little success.
Because the Yamaguchi group is legal after all, its internal strife is only an appropriate operational risk.