YAKUZA gangsters who have supposedly left the criminal fold or grown too old to beat money out of debtors are being helped by the Government to claim benefits from Japan's creaking welfare system.Evidently all they have to do is produce a letter from their old gang saying they are no longer a member and can demonstrate they are unfit to work.
In a bizarre twist of bureaucratic logic, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has drafted what amounts to an ex-Yakuza welfare charter in an effort to stamp out mafia benefit cheats.
The revelation that perhaps hundreds of ex-Yakuza have exploited this and are now living on benefits comes at a sensitive time. Earlier this week, it emerged that the number of households living on welfare in 2005 hit the million mark for the first time.
The Yakuza is Japan's mafia, with tens of thousands of members and protection, gambling and loan-sharking rackets across the country.
-- R.G. Menzies
LIBERTARIAN/CONSERVATIVE DIGEST AND COMMENTARY FROM AN ACADEMIC PSYCHOLOGIST in Brisbane, Australia. My academic publications are widely read
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Japanese Mobsters Get Welfare
If you're a Japanese mobster who is getting too old to break legs have no fear, there is always state welfare.
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