Let’s GO To Kobe, and Explore the Yakuza Influence Here! #japan #letsgo #yakuza #kobe #documentary

And in the center of this hometown, Kobe, a Maka clan created an entire business district of its own. Guys, we’re here in Kobe. It’s one of Japan’s main port cities south of Tokyo, not far from Osaka. There’s not much to say about the waterfront here. It’s beautiful. And generally, it’s such a Japanese Detroit in a sense. Gotham, the city where the most powerful influence of Japanese mafia. By the way, look at this nice line right here. It’s a line to take a photo with these huge letters spelling be Kobe and so that no one gets in the frame so that you can take a beautiful pictures the Japanese stand and wait patiently. In fact, Kobe is famous for being one of the first ports allowed to receive foreigners after Japan began to reopen in 1868. And there’s even a monument to that. See, there’s a European family with a boy. And in the description, it says from Koba to the world. And so it reads, “From Kobe to the world.” I only pretend that I can read kanji.

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