When and who started Asian organized crime?
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Asian gangs are a relatively new phenomenon. They began to emerge in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Many Asian gangs, usually nameless, are formed by the youths who once worked for well-established Asian gangs. In other cases, they are formed by local Asian delinquent youths, who often claim to be a part of the better- known Asian gangs. In reality, they just use this claim to intimidate their victims and enhance their prestige. Asian gangs also recognize that they are not likely to get prosecuted for their crimes against other Asians because most Asians are unlikely to call or report the crimes to the police. It is unfortunate but true that many Asians resist or avoid dealing with law enforcement officials or agencies for as long as possible. This problem is not the result of police actions or practices, but rather an ill-conceived notion about the role of law enforcement officials in the community. To many Asians, law enforcement officials represent a source of extreme terror rather than a source of help or service. This misconception was deeply cultivated by the social and political conditions in the places from which they came. For years, many Asian governments (e.g.,China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Taiwan, North and South Korea, Indonesia and Burma) have used the police as a political weapon to suppress political discontents and to protect their powers rather than as an instrument to enforce justice. Moreover, unlike the U.S. legal system, in which an individual cannot be arrested without a warrant or imprisoned without receiving a fair trial, many of the legal systems in Asia seldom provide these protections even if they're written into law. In fact, the police in many of the underdeveloped Asian countries can arrest people without a probable cause or a warrant and can put people in jail for years without a trial. The police, especially those in countries under communist and authoritarian regimes (China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Burma and North Korea), have also used uncivil and barbaric interrogation techniques (which have been widely documented by the mass media and international human rights organizations) to exact information from suspected civil and political criminals. Many Asians in the United States are political refugees who spent many years in prisonor reeducation camps and suffered through various forms of maltreatment, including severe physical and mental tortures. Finally, the police in underdeveloped Asian countries are often associated with or involved in many criminal activities. These unfortunate experiences have helped Asian immigrants form a very negative image of the role of the police in society.
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every country has some sort of controlled criminal element, be it mafia, yakuza, yardie etc.\nkorea has a lot of corruption and traditionally had a large mafia element. however, since the olympics in 88 the government has spent a lot of time and money trying to clean up, especially before the world cup. \nthere is a large and controlled mafia, but you would never really come across it day to day. if you go to sicily you don't see marlon brando types everywhere. nowadays the korean gangs has moved away from day to day extortion of people and used most of their money in corporate korea, investing, property etc. \nput it this way, you wouldn't know if you went to korea, but you couldn't build an office block, without having to "pay your respects" to someone
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go to www.aseansec.org and click on member countries. I could cut and paste but can't be bothered doing your homework for you ;) and who knows maybe someone here knows it off the top of their heads.
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Don't know. But they were in California where it started. Check their website!
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AAAS has published several different books with similar titles but I am having difficulty locating the exac ttitle you have described here.\n\nPerhaps you should ask in the wanted section of http://hongkong.craigslist.org/
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Both have large Asian populations.
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It is assumed that terrorist organizations get funded by running or by being partnered with drug organizations.  I believe it is also assumed that illicit drugs and guns go together (sell drugs, get money, buy guns?).  I don't have a direct answer for you, but rather food for further thought...\n\nNow, I don't know that I've ever seen a connection actually made, but you can hypothesize that a kingpin in America sells cocaine from South America to the street, then he takes the money and buys black market assault weapons here; THEN, he turns around and sells it to terrorists at a bigger profit.\n\nSo, where do the terrorists get the money to buy the guns in the first place, you may ask?  That's where the second part of your question comes into play.  America is only one market amongst many in the world.  Just because we don't have a lot of opium here doesn't mean it isn't prevalent elsewhere.  Perhaps they sell it somewhere else to get the money to buy our guns?\n\nI'm sure the situation is very complex, and perhaps I have the completely wrong answer, but it's a thought.  Some interesting reading can be found in the link below, but take it with a grain of salt until you find corroboration:\n\nhttp://www.pa-chouvy.org/Chouvy-ChinaEurasiaForumQuarterly-2006-AfghanistanOpiumPerspective.html
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I was in a small gang in the Bronx, New York in the early 70's, during the heyday of gangs. It was always about turf and other violations but it was fun and you only got killed if you asked for it. Other than that, you got a chance to test your fighting ability or martial arts skills and you always saw face to face who the hell you wuz fightin'. By the beginning of the 80's most had died out already as we had more important issues to take care of such as becoming useful members of society and getting college degrees. Looks like shortly afterwards California picked up on it, a little too late though (been there, done that) with the exception that these gangs were just a bunch of shoot in the back murderers and drug dealers that deserved to ripped from limb to limb and wouldn't have been able to stand a chance against  us in the old days and would have been exterminated. You've got some active gangs across the states nowadays that ain't about nuthin' except killing their own brothers and bullcrap. If there were more propagation of the arts, and if the government would stop cutting funds for the advancement of such endeavors, there would probably be less gangs roaming around.
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Check out North Korea, has been implicated in drug distribution, counterfeiting and of course, proliferation of nuclear weapons and propulsion technology.  Latest issue of Asia Times is implicating North Korea's shady activities in weakening US and South Korea relations.
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asia oil , gas , wild animals and voodoo
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It basically makes up organized crime these days, in the 20's it started with alcohol, then that was legalized so now its on to drugs.
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You should go to china , Once upon a time (about 20 years ago),China government implemented a social movement against criminal activities called "yangda" ----burglary,rape,robbery,bribery etc...anything could sentence to immediate execution by gun-shot (relatives paid for bullets fee, How miserly the government is!!!)
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A mafia is a very organized crime assosiation.Mostly concentrating in trading illiagal goods.A mob is a lot of people that just go charging on something...sort of like a strike go wild.
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Alberto Fujimori - President of Peru between 1990 - 2000, the first East Asian man to be leader of a Latin-American country. \nHe went back Japan after that, then intended to go back Peru for President Election in 2005, but was arrested in Chile and sent to Peru for some scandals during his leading time.
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Hi,\nHow about Asian Splendor?
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There have been thousand of small town and village in Japan since ancient times.\nMost small town and village were very poor. However they had local festivals. Some neighbor villages have got together and do annual or seasonal competitive race and contest for their fun. They enjoyed those festivals because they were also militia (local samurai) when in war time.\nWhen western culture was started to be imported, ppl found there was any essence which chevy Japanese samurai spirits, 2 teams fight and compete, in some those culture. I think baseball was one of them.\nSee, Korea had been under the reign of China for 1,000 years. Civilian was not at leisure in life, and had no spare time to enjoy those recreation.
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I don't think it was Mussolini, but then again because of him, so many Italian mafiosi fled to America. I would have to say Mario Puzo, and the reason for that is his book and movie "The Godfather." They were kind of like a guide to being a mobster. Its kind of funny because even though what happened in the book and movie would never happen in real life, mobsters would try to copy the images in "The Godfather", which in turn made Hollywood copy from the mobsters.