Via the Japan Subculture Research Center:

After decades of unspoken agreements between police and yakuza that have allowed organized crime to operate with relative impunity in everything from gambling on sport and illegal casinos to human trafficking and prostitution, the national police are cracking down on Japan’s top yakuza gang, energized not only by the embarrassment over the sumo debacle but also by the emergence of a dynamic new National Police Agency (NPA) chief last year who wants to curtail the broad influence of yakuza in society.

This is a major move in Japan! The Yakuza are woven in the basically every facet of Japanese society. Click here to read the rest of the story.To keep up with Jake, and more on Japanese subculutre, follow him on Twitter. Here are previous stories on the Yakuza.[ad#468x60-ad]