The origin of Japanese underworld can be traced back to the Meiji Restoration. After the samurai class was abolished, many samurai lost their focus of life and gradually turned to violent crimes. Some samurai began to do business or engage in shady industries (such as opening casinos and brothels), and slowly these samurai began to form gangs and eventually formed various gangs and societies.
At first, Japanese underworld was the target of Japanese government's key monitoring and crackdown, because their underground industry had seriously disrupted the normal order of Japanese society. Until after World War II, as a defeated country, Japan's social order was relatively stable, and the government was unable to control all this, so the Japanese government reached a tacit understanding with triad organizations, that is, the government recognized the legal status of triad organizations and triad organizations helped the government maintain social order within the framework of law.
However, it should be noted that the legitimacy of the Japanese underworld does not mean that Japanese gangs can do illegal things. If Japanese gangs do anything that violates Japanese laws, they will be punished by the Japanese government. Of course, on the other hand, in some neighborhoods, the police will tolerate some gang activities appropriately without disturbing the public order in the area, and achieve a tacit understanding of black and white.
In this way, after bloody primitive capital accumulation, the Japanese underworld basically had its own legal assets and legitimate income, which was successfully washed away. At present, Japanese underworld organizations rarely conflict with ordinary people, and gang fights mainly break out between two opposing gangs because of conflicts of interest. Moreover, the rules of Japanese underworld organizations are becoming stricter and stricter, and they try to control their actions within the scope permitted by law and prevent themselves from becoming the target of government attacks. Because once the underworld is defined as a violent group, it will be strictly restricted by all aspects.
In short, the Japanese underworld is not an image of drug trafficking, fighting, collecting huge sums of money to protect society, obeying regional laws, taking root in the masses, and trying not to disturb the lives of ordinary people. Sometimes it even plays the role of maintaining social order and organizing disaster relief. Therefore, the Japanese gangsters people see wearing suits, shoes and ties are completely different from the invulnerable underworld.