Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter

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Many yakuza have full-body tattoos (including their genitalia). These tattoos, known as irezumi in Japan, are still often "hand-poked", that is, the ink is inserted beneath the skin using non-electrical, hand-made, and handheld tools with needles of sharpened bamboo or steel. The procedure is expensive and painful, and can take years to complete. [25] A designated boryokudan ( 指定暴力団, Shitei Bōryokudan) [30] is a "particularly harmful" yakuza group [31] registered by the Prefectural Public Safety Commissions under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law ( 暴力団対策法, Bōryokudan Taisaku Hō) enacted in 1991. [32] Groups are designated as boryokudan if their members take advantage of the gang's influence to do business, are structured to have one leader, and have a large portion of their members hold criminal records. [6] Shouko Tendou adalah anak seorang kepala geng yakuza. Saat ia kecil, hidupnya makmur. Tapi jangan sangka ia ditakuti karena merupakan anak yakuza. Para tetangga terus menggunjingkan keluarganya. Saat Shouko bermain di halaman rumah, seorang wanita tiba-tiba datang dan mengatakan padanya bahwa kakak laki-lakinya, Daiki, bukan anak ayahnya. Apa urusannya coba mengatakan hal seperti itu pada anak-anak? Di sekolah, Shouko ditindas. Sepatunya dimasukkan ke tungku dan tiap piket kelas, hanya dia yang harus membersihkan kelas. Shouko menghadapinya seorang diri. Ia tidak pernah bercerita pada orangtuanya dan tidak pernah bolos sekolah. Ia memutuskan tidak peduli pada semua penindasan itu.

The events and circumstances that are supposed to evoke my sympathy are hard to relate to since Tendo made her own choices knowing what she was getting herself into. Frankly, there was little validity to her ditching school or joining a gang. Then there’s her fall into drug use where she talks about the rush of shooting up and f***ing while high. Or her accounts of physical abuse, which start gradually with her boyfriend who she shoots up with, before it builds up to outbursts of violence where her descriptions conjured the image of her being a human punching bag. The abuse continues with other men, too, even after she ended her drug addiction, and it reads more like a tab on the number of violent encounters than anything with more substance. Zeller, Frank ( AFP- Jiji), "Yakuza served notice days of looking the other way are over," Japan Times, 26 January 2011, p. 3. I think foreigners (myself included) have a tendency to romanticize Japan and its culture and people. Especially when it comes to stories about Yakuza. This dark, horrifying story is a cold reminder that Japanese gangsters are not nice people.The Club Jupiter area of Sotenbori is located in the south-eastern corner of Sotenbori, around the southern strip of Shofukucho, Ashitaba Park, and Bunzaemon Outdoor Mall. During Japan's bubble economy of the eighties, Tendo worked as a bar hostess, attracting many rich and loyal customers, and earning money to help her family out of debt. But there were also abusive clients, one of whom beat her so badly that her face was left permanently scarred. Her mother died, plunging Tendo into a depression so deep that she tried to commit suicide. Here we have a manga adaptation of the compelling memoir from the daughter of a Japanese mobster boss. Tendo’s original drew words like "powerful" and "blunt". . .and sold over 100,000 copies." – Library Journal As a matter of principle, theft is not recognized as a legitimate activity of yakuza. This is in line with the idea that their activities are semi-open; theft by definition would be a covert activity. More importantly, such an act would be considered a trespass by the community. Yakuza also usually do not conduct the actual business operation by themselves. Core business activities such as merchandising, loan sharking, or management of gambling houses are typically managed by non-yakuza who pay protection fees for their activities. The yakuza do not consist of just one group, rather there are many different syndicate groups that together form one of the largest organized crime groups in the world. [26]

In recent years, the three major yakuza syndicates have formed a loose alliance, and in April 2023, Kiyoshi Takayama, the wakagashira (second-in-command) of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Shuji Ogawa, the kaichō (chairman) of the Sumiyoshi-kai, and Kazuya Uchibori ( ja), the kaichō of the Inagawa-kai, held a social gathering. [27] Principal families That said, it is an accurate depiction of the life of a woman raised in a Yakuza family that falls from riches into poverty, a depiction of the stigma attached to the children of the Yakuza in Japan and the role of females in Japanese society, particularly the poor. This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( January 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Suatu ketika Shouko ditangkap polisi. Ia tidak membawa thinner tapi dalam laporan polisi ditulis ia membawa thinner. Dia hanya membawa aspirin, tapi polisi mengatakan di pengadilan bahwa ia membawa obat-obatan terlarang. Siapa bilang orang Jepang pasti jujur? Akhirnya Shouko dimasukkan ke sekolah anak nakal. Gurunya sampai bingung karena selama di sana Shouko mengerjakan tugasnya dengan baik dan tak ambil pusing pada yang tidak mengerjakan tugasnya. Pada dasarnya Shouko orang yang bertanggung jawab, tapi lingkungan yang ada di sekelilingnya salah. Setelah masa hukumannya selesai ia kembali pada gengnya. bagi saya itu seperti belajar menguji 'kedalaman', prinsip, dan seluruh 'intisari' diri sendiri melalui pertimbangan yang dihasilkan, keputusan yang dibuat, kemudian menjalani konsekuensinya, apapun hasilnya. terlebih saat dihadapkan ke banyak situasi yang diluar kendali atau bahkan jika terdesak dalam kondisi tak punya pilihan. lalu jika ternyata salah? saya rasa di persimpangan jalan berikutnya akan tetap ditemukan pilihan yang kembali harus dibuat. dengan pertimbangan yang sudah lebih matang daripada yang ditemukan di beberapa persimpangan sebelumnya. pada akhirnya, saya tidak akan pernah berhenti memilih. Britannica, Encyclopedia. "Taoka Kazuo, Japanese crime boss". www.britannica.com. The editors of Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 4 May 2022. The author writes it like it was how her life was affected by the choice of lifestyle her father lived. How at the age of 12 she became a dropout and her life of sex, drugs, and abuse begins. It's really sad to see how someone can be dragged into that type of lifestyle and how drugs can consume you and put you at risk of being a victim. She kept getting herself into relationships where she would get beaten up, you would think that she would have learned her lesson early on but I guess she wanted someone to love her or care for her or maybe protect her. In the circle of people she lived in she was not going to find that and she later realizes that.

The yakuza are known for their strict codes of conduct, their organized fiefdom nature, and several unconventional ritual practices such as yubitsume, or amputation of the left little finger. [4] Members are often portrayed as males with heavily tattooed bodies and wearing fundoshi, sometimes with a kimono or, in more recent years, a Western-style "sharp" suit covering them. [5] This group is still regarded as being among "the most sophisticated and wealthiest criminal organizations". [6]The problem with Tendo’s character portrait is that it’s written without depth. At no point does Tendo ever go into the impact such physiacl abuse had on her state of mind or the emotional turmoil it inflicted upon her. At this point, the book lost all credibility to me. The only argument Tendo has to justify her actions such as become a yanki, alomst get gang-raped, use speed and f*** all the time – was that she was Yakuza, an outcast in society, in school, among friends… But what does Yakuza mean?! I’m just supposed to grasp Tendo’s contextual references because she tells me that that’s how things work. Maejima kemudian mati karena infeksi paru-paru. Barulah Shouko bisa bebas. Seorang diri ia berusaha lepas dari ketergantungan narkoba.