Early life check? Also aren't the Yakuza supposed to prevent this kind of thing from being out in the open? Or has popular media lied to me yet again...
But realistically it was normally the military that stopped this sort of thing .The samurai fought against modernization and the military staged a coup on the government in 1930's to prevent this sort of thing
But since ww2, the military has been defanged and demonized. This was what Yukio Mishima railed against, he told the Japanese "Self Defense Force" they were now acting as puppets to the government who themselves were puppets to a foreign country and he asked "where had the samurai spirit gone"?
Early life check? Also aren't the Yakuza supposed to prevent this kind of thing from being out in the open? Or has popular media lied to me yet again...
The government clamped down hard on the Yakuza.
But realistically it was normally the military that stopped this sort of thing .The samurai fought against modernization and the military staged a coup on the government in 1930's to prevent this sort of thing
But since ww2, the military has been defanged and demonized. This was what Yukio Mishima railed against, he told the Japanese "Self Defense Force" they were now acting as puppets to the government who themselves were puppets to a foreign country and he asked "where had the samurai spirit gone"?
Government has busted down on the yakuza hard, so now you only got more foreign mafia and corrupted cops, alternatively the yakuza got modernized.