greenmedic88 on 24 March 2010
| bugrimmar said: ^ gah, they just go around flaunting that they're criminals? i don't get it. how are they not arrested? |
Semi-legitimate might be the best way to describe their business. It's not all illegal and they have been known to take care of their territories, rather than just extort "protection money" for nothing more than protection from the extortioners themselves. The local Yakuza responded before the Japanese government in providing emergency aid following the Kobe earthquake.
Of course one isolated instance hardly makes them esteemed members of the community.
So I suppose the best answer would be to say that they exist and thrive for the same reasons as the drug cartels; because there is a need for illegal goods and services they peddle in and because they are essentially entrenched in the local communities in which they operate.
