The English equivalent for the term yakuza is gangster, meaning an individual involved in a Mafia-like criminal organization. The Japanese police and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan ( 暴力団, "violent groups", IPA: ), while the yakuza call themselves ninkyō dantai ( 任侠団体, " chivalrous organizations", IPA: ). Yakuza ( Japanese: ヤクザ, IPA: ) / j ə ˈ k uː z ə, ˈ j æ k uː z ə/, also known as gokudō ( 極道, "the extreme path", IPA: ), are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. Varied, including illegitimate businesses, an array of criminal and non-criminal activities. Occasionally Koreans and Americans ( Japanese Americans). Primarily Japan with some in South Korea and the Western United States, particularly Kantō/ Tokyo, Kyoto, Chūbu, Hawaii, California and the Southwestern United States (presumed to have originated from the Kabukimono)
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