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Japanese Yakuza Aid Earthquake Relief Efforts

Even Japan’s infamous mafia groups are helping out with the relief efforts and showing a strain of civic duty. Jake Adelstein reports on why the police don’t want you to know about it.

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Intricate tattoo of a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia. (Michael Rubenstein / Redux)
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