Word: yakuza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the blast badly damaged the plane's hydraulic controls, Pilot Ampole Ploymekha somehow righted the aircraft and landed safely at Osaka International Airport. Of the 246 passengers and crew, 62 were injured, five of them seriously. Investigators traced the incident to a yakuza (Japanese gangster) who, it is believed, was trying to hide a hand grenade, purchased in Manila as a "souvenir," in the plane's bathroom when the grenade suddenly exploded...
Witnesses testified that a Japanese crime cartel called the Yakuza has moved into the U.S. with drug smuggling, gunrunning, gambling and pornography. The members operate under a brutal and feudal discipline and often tattoo their bodies from shoulders to thighs using needles that penetrate a quarter-inch, teaching initiates to withstand pain. One Japanese businessman claimed that four high-stakes casinos are run by the Yakuza in Manhattan in cooperation with the Mafia...