Old School Yakuza Feeling the Heat from Gangster-Nerds

by on February 28, 2009

The Yakuza—Japan’s organised-crime groups that date from the 17th century—are getting squeezed. The floundering economy has eaten into revenue from traditional activities that required muscle, such as gambling, prostitution & loan-sharking. To compensate the groups have ploughed into cybercrime giving rise to a new generation of gangster-nerds.