After the big Fukushima earthquake, the yakuza ("gangsters") were the first ones to provide disaster relief, even before the Japanese government. Yes, they're gangsters and probably scumbags in real life—let's not glamorize it—but they take protecting their territory seriously.
New York was basically ran by jewish mobs. All the Hollywood stuff of Italian mobsters was done to draw attention away from what they were doing. That is where the term "heebie jeebies" comes from, people being scared around jewish gangsters.
After the big Fukushima earthquake, the yakuza ("gangsters") were the first ones to provide disaster relief, even before the Japanese government. Yes, they're gangsters and probably scumbags in real life—let's not glamorize it—but they take protecting their territory seriously.
Because they understand money. You want a steady cash flow? You need a strong, stable economy. THAT is what they're protecting.
Kind of makes me wonder if we wouldn't benefit from having some of our own homegrown mafias instead of hordes of foreign gangs.
New York was basically ran by jewish mobs. All the Hollywood stuff of Italian mobsters was done to draw attention away from what they were doing. That is where the term "heebie jeebies" comes from, people being scared around jewish gangsters.