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The Yakuza: Japan's Secret Criminal Empire — From Black Markets to the Stock Exchange | History Sleep Story (Rain Sounds)
Tonight's story follows one of the most unlikely rags-to-riches tales in modern history: how a loose network of Edo-period peddlers and gamblers survived three centuries at the margins of Japanese society, then rose out of the ashes of 1945 to become the Yakuza, one of the most powerful organized crime networks the world has ever seen.
Lie back, let the rain fall, and drift off as we trace the entire arc: the tekiya and bakuto guilds of feudal Japan, the black markets that fed a starving, defeated nation, the shadow fixer Kodama Yoshio who moved between the underworld and the Prime Minister's…
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