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- Dictionaryyakuza/jəˈkuːzə/
noun
- 1. a powerful Japanese criminal organization.
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, also known as, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media, by request of the police, call them, while the yakuza call themselves . The English equivalent for the term yakuza is gangster, meaning an individual involved in a Mafia-like criminal organization. Wikipedia