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Japan: Ex-Yakuza, Mako Nishimura Helps Former Gangsters Reintegrate Today · Global Voices

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Gifu - Two missing phalanges in his little finger betray the criminal past of Mako Nishimura, one of the few women to have belonged to the yakuza, who today dedicates his life to helping former gangsters to reintegrate into Japanese society. The lucrative network of organized crime of the yakuza has long ruled over lucrative drug trafficking, clandestine tricks and sex trade in the archipelago. But in recent years, its members are rarer while an…
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Gifu - Two missing phalanges in his little finger betray the criminal past of Mako Nishimura, one of the few women to have belonged to the yakuza, who today dedicates his life to helping former gangsters to reintegrate into Japanese society. The lucrative network of organized crime of the yakuza has long ruled over lucrative drug trafficking, clandestine tricks and sex trade in the archipelago. But in recent years, its members are rarer while an…

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L'Opinion broke the news in on Friday, October 17, 2025.
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