Japanese gangsters, once known as one of the top ten gangsters in the world. Now, I start a milk tea business on the streets of Japan.
only requires a cost of 2 million yen, and you can get a profit of about 800,000-1 million yen (about 50,000-60,000 yuan) per month.
But in fact, in addition to milk tea, there are many business practices of Japanese gangs!
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Recently, the "Baibiao Milk Tea Fever" originated from Taiwan, China has spread to Japan. Not only are the young people walking on the bustling streets drinking bubble tea in their hands, but even the gangsters started the milk tea business and sold well, preparing to make a big profit from it.
Surprisingly, this milk tea shop can make about 800,000 to 1 million yen (about 50,000 to 60,000 yuan) of profit per month. The huge profit-making gangster milk tea shop has caused widespread heated discussion among netizens.
Some netizens envied that gangsters can always easily find good deals to make money.
Some netizens said that the gang has made contributions to Japanese society and is much better than dependents.
Chinese netizens said that this Japanese gangster is even a bit cute!
Someone asked the manager, "Why are the pearls in milk tea black and have the 'metaphor' of gangsters?" The manager hurriedly explained, "It has nothing to do with it. It is just because the black 'pearls' are very popular among young people, so it is made black."
The gang member who runs a milk tea shop said that selling milk tea does not require any special technology and does not require too much opening cost, "No business is better than this"!
This "gangster" milk tea shop, which has attracted much attention, is located in a corner of a bustling street market in a subway station in Japan. The clerk is kind and polite, which is very different from the image of the gangster. It is hard for anyone to associate this beautifully decorated and politely clerk milk tea shop with Japanese gangsters. Not to mention, how could people imagine that the money of "pepper milk tea women" who took photos on social media and enjoyed the delicious "pepper milk tea" would eventually flow into the gangster.
In fact, many clerks themselves don’t know that this store is actually under the name of the gang organization industry.
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Coincidentally, the business of a gang involves all aspects and is not always an illegal act. On the contrary, the business of the milk tea shop is very popular.
"Pearl milk tea is so popular, and many of the raw materials are out of stock!" The manager said, "Most of the raw materials for making pearl milk tea are bought from supermarkets, and many of them can only be imported from China."
Regarding the cost, the reporter checked the price online. The amount of pearls put in a cup of milk tea is generally 20 grams, and the cost is only about 6 yen (equivalent to RMB 38). The more pearls you put in, the lower the cost will be. On the contrary, the more milk tea is more expensive. The cost of opening a milk tea shop is not high, and it requires almost no technology. It only costs about 5 square meters of space, which is very cheap even if it is opened in the center of Tokyo. The start-up capital only costs about 2 million yen (about 127,000 RMB).
opening a milk tea shop is not the first time that a Japanese gangster has tried to keep up with the trend. A few years ago, Japanese gangs sold Valentine's Day chocolates; when bread became popular, they would also sell bread, making a fortune from small and medium-sized money.
Some Japanese netizens even revealed that the gang’s main business was to open an octopus macao store.
At the same time, there are also Japanese gang members selling emoticons, but unfortunately they were arrested by the police.
On January 19, 2019, a Japanese gang member sold homemade emoticons on the social software line, attracting the attention of the police. After the police determined that this may be a new type of "collecting protection fees", so they have strengthened their vigilance.
According to Japan's Sankei Shimbun, the man is a 40-year-old member of a gangster group under the "Sushiyoshi Association" in Japan. In the emoticon packages he made, some said "With the eldest brother", "This is the headquarters", and some words such as "Let me go", "Confirm the leader", and "Who is at the headquarters".
In the past few days, the sealing came too quickly like a tornado.
also has regulations on line, emoticon packages can only be sold for up to 600 yen (37 yuan). After the user purchases the emoticon package, the producer can get a part of the amount after deducting the handling fee.In response, police investigators said: "If gang members forcefully ask relevant people to purchase emoticons, it will essentially become an act of collecting protection fees. If there is no control, this is likely to become a way for gangs to use social media to obtain funds."
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In addition to this, gangs still have "dark" aspects. Some media say that the Japanese gang is "Goldman Sachs Group armed with guns."
Japanese gangs also started with opening casinos, collecting protection fees, and extortion, but since the 1990s, they began to carry out "strategic transfer", establish companies, invest in large-scale national construction projects such as real estate and transportation, and extended their tentacles to the financial field.
Gangs are a special social group in Japan. They are powerful and disciplined. Their members, especially senior members, are more like entrepreneurs. Unlike the image of street gangsters appearing in police and gangster films, members of Japan's largest gangster " Yamaguchi Group " are all wearing suits and tied, looking like an ordinary salaryman. However, they all have large tattoos on their backs and only have 9 fingers.
When organized crime develops to a certain extent, it is no longer just fighting, killing or running a few nightclubs to hide their eyes and ears. More often, they will normalize, financialize and legalize industries in the gray area. Yamaguchi Group laundered the money across the country by buying and selling discounted securities and registering shell companies, and bleached the black money.
"Insider of Money Laundering" states that in December 2003, the Swiss Zurich authorities announced that due to money laundering, the account opened by a Japanese in Credit Suisse Bank was frozen, and the amount involved reached 61 million Swiss francs, equivalent to about 5.2 billion yen. The owner of the account is Kajiyama, one of the top leaders of the Yamaguchi Group's underground financial group.
This money laundering case involves billions of yen, but no records of overseas remittances are left. The specific operators are private financial advisor and private banker at Credit Suisse Hong Kong Branch. In June 2004, an employee of the Hong Kong branch of Credit Suisse (pseudonym "Ichiro Fukushima") was arrested for violating the Organized Crime Act.
Many Japanese underworld organizations, including the "Yamaguchi Group", do both black and white businesses, have close ties with the political circle, and have increasingly influence in economics. A report from the Japanese Police Department said that 22 Japanese gangs controlled a total of 20 trillion yen of annual economic output, and gangs have controlled Japan's securities transactions and affected hundreds of listed companies. Therefore, some media said that the Japanese gangsters were "Goldman Sachs Group armed with guns."
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Japan is the only country in the world that recognizes the legitimacy of gangsters.
But now, joining the gangster and living a luxurious life has lost its appeal to the younger generation of Japan.
Previously, Japan Yamaguchi Group third-generation leader Taoka Kazuo often reminds members: "do more serious things." A gang member who runs a milk tea shop said that selling milk tea does not require any special technology or too much opening cost, "no business is better than this."
Gang members are often pulled into gangs after being young or come from a lower socio-economic background. They rely on engaging in the porn and entertainment industries, operating talent agencies and drinking places to earn rich income.
Nowadays, in order to combat criminal gangs, the Japanese government has introduced a series of anti-gang laws as early as 1992. A statute that excludes gangsters limits any form of association with gang members. Former gang members who have been convicted are not allowed to participate in national medical insurance, open bank accounts, apply for car licenses, become members of fitness venues, and even allow their children to be admitted to the nursing home. The effect of
is gradually becoming obvious. The Japanese Police Department said the number of members of organized crime groups fell to 30,500 in 2018, the lowest in history. Now and former gang members are at greater risk of arrest, and their identities are to be exposed publicly, making the power of these organizations weak and there is little hiding place.
Take Japan's largest gangster as an example - Yamaguchi Group headquartered in Kobe - reduced 10,000 members. The organization celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2015 and claimed to have 40,000 members at its peak. At present, the data of Yamaguchi Group's members has dropped to 9,500. The second largest gang, the Sukiyoshi Association, currently has 4,490 members, and the third largest gang, the Inagawa Association, has 3,700 members.
A 2017 report by Japan's News Agency pointed out that since 1983, the number of gang members in Japan has decreased year by year, and many people have been arrested for illegal and criminal activities. In addition, due to the decline in the economy year by year, the US government has also continuously imposed sanctions, and the profits of gangs have long been "lost". As of the end of 2016, there were only more than 13,000 gang members in Japan, a decrease of 10% from the previous year.
manuscript/Ke Ruifeng
edit/Wang Xiaohan
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