{"id":22464,"date":"2020-09-05T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/05\/making-a-slow-getaway-ageing-population-japans-yakuza"},"modified":"2020-09-05T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T04:00:45","slug":"making-a-slow-getaway-japans-anti-yakuza-laws-result-in-cohort-of-ageing-gangsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22464","title":{"rendered":"Making a slow getaway: Japan&#8217;s anti-yakuza laws result in cohort of ageing gangsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of yakuza are now over 50 &#8211; and 10% are over 70 &#8211; as a result of an ageing population and police crackdowns<\/p>\n<p>A double-whammy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/27\/japan-shrinking-as-birthrate-falls-to-lowest-level-in-history\">skewed demographics<\/a> and legal crackdowns has forced Japan\u2019s yakuza crime syndicates to call on middle-aged men to do their dirtiest work, as they struggle to attract new blood to replenish their dwindling ranks.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since records began in 2006, 51.2% of regular yakuza members are aged 50 or over \u2013 with a noticeable increase in septuagenarians \u2013 according to a new report by the national police agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/05\/making-a-slow-getaway-ageing-population-japans-yakuza\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of yakuza are now over 50 &#8211; and 10% are over 70 &#8211; as a result of an ageing population and police crackdownsA double-whammy of skewed demographics and legal crackdowns has forced Japan\u2019s yakuza crime syndicates to call on middle-aged men &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1668,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-organised-crime","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22465,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464\/revisions\/22465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}