14 Apr 2025
The Yakuza is collapsing, destroyed by Gen Z and the cultural and generational tension they caused.
I explore how legal crackdowns, economic shifts, and a cultural clash with Japan’s youngest generation have pushed Japan’s most infamous organized crime syndicates to the brink how “Tokuryu”, a new form of decentralized, digital-native organized crime is rising to take its place.
This is a case study of generational tension that’s not just applicable to gangs, but work, family, maybe even the future itself.
00:00 Intro
00:56 Yakuza History
01:50 Legal Crackdown
02:51 Economics of Crime
06:43 Why People Don’t Join the Yakuza
07:19 Why Gen Zs Don’t Join the Yakuza
10:35 Tokuryu
14:44 Generational Tension
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