Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Japanese Yakuza gangs can be found all over the country and in every part of the economy.Their members include ethnic Japanese and Korean immigrants, old mobsters and young upstarts, and even the wives and daughters of yakuza bosses.Though the Yakuza doesn't occupy the central place in Japanese culture and society it held in its early-1960s heyday, well over 25k members are still estimated to function full-time as Yakuza mobsters.Compared to the roughly 4,000 Italian mafia family members and some 3 million gangsters in the Russian mob - by far the world's largest - the Yakuza are a sizeable force in a country not known for its crime and disorder.But few rival organised crime cultures.
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