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Definitions of yakuza in English

Noun(1) a Japanese gangster(2) organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises

Examples of yakuza in English

(1) Joel dreams of escape from his Alaskan bondage when a couple Japanese businessmen / yakuza weighing whether to build a resort in Alaska or Hawaii arrive in Cicely to be wined and dined by Maurice.(2) Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money (e.g., Japanese Liberal Democratic politicians and yakuza gangsters).(3) 100,000 yakuza in Japan rake in some $10 billion a year(4) Moon Child is a low budget Japanese yakuza vampire sci-fi action drama.(5) Zatoichi's a reformed yakuza forever finding himself dragged into conflicts between the corrupt ruling classes and their exploited peasantry.(6) In Dead or Alive, Ryu, a stoic, stylish criminal with a mixed Chinese and Japanese background, leads his posse into a war against Japanese yakuza and Chinese Triad bosses in Tokyo.(7) In the eyes of an average Japanese a tattoo is considered a mark of a yakuza - a member of the Japanese mafia - or a macho symbol of members of the lower classes.(8) Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.(9) So it was perhaps inevitable that he should have turned to playing a gangster - a yakuza - in his fourth film.(10) You know how the yakuza works better than anybody, Tsu-kun, you know how your parents work.(11) Various kinds of people came to stay there, including members of the yakuza , and given that fact, I thought it would be foolish not to learn some kind of martial art.(12) In nearly every Zatoichi film, the female lead falls in love with the grubby, poor, and blind former yakuza , usually because she's drawn to his kindness and willingness to defend the weak.(13) Thousands of new titles on themes ranging from samurai, golf, yakuza gangsters, fantasy superheroes, sex and social satire are published each year.(14) Constituencies are gerrymandered, kickbacks from public works are channelled back to the party through yakuza gangsters and key policy decisions are made by party elders behind closed doors.(15) In another, an ageing yakuza gangster returns to a park where he used to meet his first love.(16) In his character-defining moment in Fireworks, Kitano planted a pair of chopsticks into the eye of an offending yakuza .

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