{"id":63959,"date":"2024-05-10T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T02:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/10\/tokuryu-japan-criminals-yakuza-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T02:44:54","slug":"tokuryu-the-shadowy-criminal-groups-taking-over-from-yakuza-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63959","title":{"rendered":"Tokury\u016b, the shadowy criminal groups taking over from yakuza in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organised in a deliberately loose fashion, tokury\u016b pose fresh problems for police, as years of crackdowns see the appeal of a yakuza life fade<\/p>\n<p>Watching three masked men smash their way into a luxury watch shop in Tokyo\u2019s upmarket Ginza district in broad daylight, some onlookers assumed they were witnessing a TV drama or movie shoot.<\/p>\n<p>But the heist in May 2023 was real. It was carried out by a group of teenagers aged between 16 and 19 who were recruited online, and part of a new crime phenomenon called <em>tokury\u016b<\/em> by authorities that is growing as Japan\u2019s yakuza clans decline.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/10\/tokuryu-japan-criminals-yakuza-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organised in a deliberately loose fashion, tokury\u016b pose fresh problems for police, as years of crackdowns see the appeal of a yakuza life fadeWatching three masked men smash their way into a luxury watch shop in Tokyo\u2019s upmarket Ginza district in broad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63959","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63960,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63959\/revisions\/63960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}