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Japanese Yakuza Aid Earthquake Relief Efforts

Even Japan’s infamous mafia groups are helping out with the relief efforts and showing a strain of civic duty. Jake Adelstein reports on why the police don’t want you to know about it.

Jake Adelstein

Published Mar. 18 2011 5:00AM EDT

articles/2011/03/18/japanese-yakuza-aid-earthquake-relief-efforts/adelstein-yakuza_167294_afcvh6 — Intricate tattoo of a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia. (Michael Rubenstein / Redux)

Jake Adelstein

Jake Adelstein

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