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Japanese gangster group
Answer for the clue "Japanese gangster group ", 6 letters:
yakuza
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Yakuza refers to traditional organized crime groups in Japan and members thereof. Yakuza may also refer to: Yakuza film , or yakuza eiga , the Japanese film genre depicting organized crime Yakuza (video game series) , a Sega franchise known as Ryu Ga Gotoku ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
traditional Japanese organized crime cartel, literally "eight-nine-three" ( ya , ku , sa ) the losing hand in the traditional baccarat-like Japanese card game Oicho-Kabu . The notion may be "good for nothing," or "bad luck" (such as that suffered by someone ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A Japanese organized crime gang 2 A member of a Japanese organized crime gang
Usage examples of yakuza.
Nicholas had his own very private reasons for hating the Yakuza and could have turned his back on Okami and his obligation to his late father.
Honor meant everything to him, but the irony of helping keep alive the living embodiment of the Yakuza was not lost on him.
Unlike in America, where the underworld was outcast from society, the Yakuza ware, in a very real sense, a part of it.
I saw how full of hate you were for the Yakuza, I could find no way to tell you the truth about your father.
Then, before the Yakuza could slam into him, Mick swiveled away to face phoenix-man.
Behind him, he could hear the squat Yakuza stumbling along on legs that refused to pump.
To this end, he had used Okami, manipulating elements of the Yakuza into service, eliminating those who stood in his way.
Let me animate like ghosts from their graves the names Seizo and Mitsuba Yamauchi, Yakuza who stood in the way of your schemes.
Nicholas did not want to look at the swaying corpse across the room, the lifeless husk that had once been the Kaisho of all the Yakuza, now mortal as the next man.
Akinaga remained, and the tall, cadaverous Yakuza wanted everyone to know that he was consolidating his power.
Nicholas Linnear, and they commenced the ritual Yakuza greeting by stating their names, rank, and clan affiliation.
Ishida is overseeing a major operation to import brown heroin from China and Thailand for a guy named Yuki Torobuni who runs the yakuza here in L.
Asian gentlemen are yakuza executives in search of an expanding business opportunity.
Every two weeks he was here with other people and those people were probably in the yakuza, too.
A girl named Mimi Warren has been kidnapped, maybe by the yakuza, and maybe by someone who knew Ishida.