On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> They have lots of gangsters (yakuza). More per capita than most countries, I > believe. One thing about those yakuza though: they were the first to bring > massive donations of food, blankets and other relief supplies to the tsunami > victims. They got there several days before the government arrived. They > also opened up their headquarters buildings in Tokyo to commuters stranded > by the earthquake and power outages. They did the same thing in the last earthquake; but, they ask that it not be publicized so that the people will accept their contributions. Otherwise, the proud people of Japan might not accept the Yakuza contributions. The Yakuza wouldn't take money floating in the water, eh? T
