How the YAKUZA Came to AMERICA - The FULL STORY

The Yakuza have had a foothold in the United States for over a century now—and it’s been an eventful hundred plus years, to say the least. Much like the evolving relationship between Japan and America, the Yakuza’s activities on U.S. soil shifted with the times. Their influence rose, fell, adapted, and at times, even intertwined with AMERICA’S criminal elite! So what happens when the Land of the Rising Sun exports its own brand of organized crime across the Pacific? What does it look like when the Yakuza not only competes with, but sometimes even collaborates with America’s most powerful criminal networks? And just how rich, how influential, and how dangerous did they become once they crossed the ocean? #yakuza #america #japan SOURCE: “Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld” by David E. Kaplan & Alec Dubro (Chapter 12: “To America”) CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 03:08 - Pre-War Era 05:36 - Tokyo Club 08:05 - The Japanese Dr*g Trade 11:40 - Post-War Era 15:21 - Tetsuo Orii 18:43 - Money Laundering 22:02 - The Italian Mafia 26:18 - Sasakawa Ryōichi 27:55 - Golf 29:33 - Canada 31:50 - Into the Modern Age 32:58 - Outro