At least they're not like what games like Yakuza portray them as. Some old Kotaku article had a guy who was ex-yakuza dude playing the actual yakuza game and he was like "We're not like that anymore, we used to do that in the 70s/80s! Nowadays we're more above the table and mostly following the law so nobody looks at us."
So they're more like - business oriented - they just operate outside the law but they don't try to get in the way of normies just trying to live a life. I'd say that's an acceptable compromise. All those horror stories about human trafficking and shit is not their stuff anymore.
At least they're not like what games like Yakuza portray them as. Some old Kotaku article had a guy who was ex-yakuza dude playing the actual yakuza game and he was like "We're not like that anymore, we used to do that in the 70s/80s! Nowadays we're more above the table and mostly following the law so nobody looks at us."
So they're more like - business oriented - they just operate outside the law but they don't try to get in the way of normies just trying to live a life. I'd say that's an acceptable compromise. All those horror stories about human trafficking and shit is not their stuff anymore.