THE NEXT DAY
Inside a hidden basement in an abandoned apartment building in the ghettos of Kurume City, four tattooed men were guarding a stockpile of more than 100 Kilograms of heroin and meth.
At a bar and sex club in Shinjuku, a tattooed man beat a Filipino woman for phoning home and trying to escape from him. Multiple clubs in Shinjuku city brought in hundreds of illegal immigrants and promised good jobs to find themselves in hell.
In a small town in Chubu, inside the office of a construction site, a man steps on an engineer's face demanding payment for protection while threatening his family.
All of these men were members of the Yakuza. All over Japan, Yakuza had rackets, scams, and illegal businesses. Though divided, the clans shared one belief, "Money is power."
But on this day, something was different.