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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: BBC News - Exposing the world of Japan's yakuza mafia. | Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Conversations - Japanese gangsters: the secrets of the Yakuza. | Feb 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Under a setting sun: the spatial displacement of the yakuza and their longing for visibility. | Sep 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wesleyan University Digital Collections - From Outcasts to Overlords: The Legitimation of the Yakuza in Japanese Society (PDF). | Jun 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Yakuza: The Warlords of Japanese Organized Crime. | Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: San Jos� State University ScholarWorks - Yakuza Past, Present and Future: The Changing Face of Japan's Organized Crime Syndicates. | Oct 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Yakuza - from the state-tolerated organization to its definition as a simple "violent criminal group". | Dec 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Yakuza. | Jul 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cleveland State University - Engaged Scholarship - The Yakuza: Organized Crime in Japan. | Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 11, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - The Yakuza of Japan. | May 10, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN World - The yakuza: Inside Japans murky criminal underworld. | Dec 12, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN World - The yakuza: Inside Japans murky criminal underworld. | Dec 12, 2017 | ||
| Cross-references added. | May 01, 2017 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Sep 21, 2012 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Jun 26, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - People - How The Yakuza Works. | Dec 22, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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