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Incidentally, Yakuza have HQs, business cards, offices, office buildings, lots of presence in legitimate businesses (eg construction).

http://www.japansubculture.com/resources/yakuza-organisation...

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yes, they're how it became obvious to me that "organized crime" has become part of 'legitimate government', or rather of "the state".

the state being this concept which encapsulates all institutions (government, academia, religion) and corporations (the military, the 'criminals' the banks, the media, etc) ruling over all of us; organizing us into a 'civilization'.

so the idea is that the legit government is really just the public known face of the state-apparatus, another part of this apparatus being organized crime, yakuzas in japan... chinese triads, italian mafia... latin american drug cartels, etc

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