On Apr 14, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Ron Fletcher wrote: > Ed Wrote... > > Buskers have to contend with police, street vendors, store owners, > bureaucrats, yakuza, toddlers, photographers, other buskers and the > occasional moron. > > What kind of hazard is a, or are Yakuza?
Sorry for the late reply. Only 1200 more emails to catch up. Yakuza are purported to be the largest organized crime network in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza Of course, it is only the lowest level, known as tekiya, that are dealing with/patrolling the streets. The police often times would rather let the yakuza control the streets so that they don't have to. In fact, organizing street festivals has been a tradition of the yakuza. As for what kind of hazard they are, they extort money or can abuse you or your possessions. cheers, Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
