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Bakuto (博徒・ばくと) 、Gambler Tekiya （的屋・てきや) 、Street-stall operators, peddlers Gurentai （愚連隊・ぐれんたい) 、Hoodlums Burakumin （部落民・ぶらくみん）、'Small settlement people.'

The document summarizes the origins and activities of different types of early Japanese organized crime groups known as yakuza. It describes bakuto as itinerant gamblers who ran illegal gambling operations and expanded into loan sharking and other activities. It outlines tekiya as street stall operators who traveled and sold goods, establishing codes and protection rings. Finally, it discusses gurentai as young hoodlums who emerged with industrialization and engaged in violence for profit or political goals.

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Bakuto (博徒・ばくと) 、Gambler Tekiya （的屋・てきや) 、Street-stall operators, peddlers Gurentai （愚連隊・ぐれんたい) 、Hoodlums Burakumin （部落民・ぶらくみん）、'Small settlement people.'

The document summarizes the origins and activities of different types of early Japanese organized crime groups known as yakuza. It describes bakuto as itinerant gamblers who ran illegal gambling operations and expanded into loan sharking and other activities. It outlines tekiya as street stall operators who traveled and sold goods, establishing codes and protection rings. Finally, it discusses gurentai as young hoodlums who emerged with industrialization and engaged in violence for profit or political goals.

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 Bakuto (博徒・ばくと)、Gambler

 Tekiya （的屋・てきや)、Street-stall operators,


peddlers
 Gurentai （愚連隊・ぐれんたい) 、Hoodlums
 Burakumin （部落民・ぶらくみん）、’Small
settlement people.’
 Jiageya（地上げ屋・ちあげや）、Land sharks,
Loan sharks

 Bakuto, Tekiya, and the Gurentai, are the three original kinds
of yakuza.
 These are the first kind of yakuza.
 The Bakuto were referred to as the core of
the Japanese organized crime groups.
 They were itinerant gamblers (travelling from
place to place) in Japan from the 18th century
to the mid-20th century.
 They have often found with Finger-cutting
and tattooing over body.
 They are mostly deal in gambling.
Bakuto
1)

 Ran illegal gambling houses and brothels

 Played dice and card games

 Used abandoned temples/shrines

 Commonly hired by government during Edo


Period to cheat construction and irrigation
workers out of their wages for a percentage

 Expanded into loan sharking and other


activities.
2)
 1) HanaFuda cards

 2) Kabufuda Cards
 They worked at trading centers or
fairs, selling products of dubious
quality or value
 The Tekiya, who first appeared in
the early 18th century, would travel
around the countryside, setting up
portable stalls at markets and
festivals.
 The Tekiya lived by strict codes, and
their gangs used the oyabun-
kobun system of bosses.
 Organized to protect themselves
and their interests against the
Shogunate
 Oyabun granted status and
surname, even allowed to carry a
wakizashi short sword
 Some worked as information
brokers or even spies for the
Shogunate
 As Japan began to industrialize and urbanization got
underway, a third group of yakuza called Gurentai began to
emerge (though the name Gurentai was not given until
after World War II).
 In short, a Gurentai is a gang in a much more traditional
sense, a group of young unruly thugs who peddle their
violence for profit.
 During the militarisation of Japan, some of them became the
militant wing of Japanese politics known as uyoku, i.e. ultra-
nationalists.
 Unlike more traditional yakuza, uyoku did not maintain
territories—they leveraged their violence for political gain. The
most famous group before World War II was the Kokuryū-kai,
or Black Dragon Society.
Jiageya（地上げ屋・ちあげや）、
Land sharks, Loan sharks
 For another type of intimidation and extortion
the yakuza is involved in is inducing landowners
and tenants to vacate land needed by real
estate developers for new projects.
 Jiageya specialize in inducing holders of small
real estate to sell their property so that estate
companies can carry out much larger
development plans.
Burakumin 部落民・ぶらくみん)ん）、
Small settlement people
 Traditionally, the Burakumin lived in their own
communities, hamlets/villages
 They were originally members of outcast
communities in the Japanese feudal era
 They were placed together in small settlements,
and moving in and out of those settlements was
difficult.
 They were branded with special identification
marks, such as yellow collars.

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