The OG Yakuza Godfather, Kazuo Taoka

The OG Yakuza Godfather, Kazuo Taoka

Orphaned and kicked out of work, Kazuo Taoka was an unlikely candidate to become one of postwar Japan’s most important characters. But by combining violence with a talent for legitimate business and corruption, the immaculately-suited gangster would lead the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate from a ragtag Kobe dockworkers’ gang to one of the world’s richest underworld forces, spreading from Japan into Southeast Asia and even the United States. That won Taoka plenty of enemies, which he almost always vanquished. But when a young rival yakuza saw Taoka celebrating at a Kyoto nightclub, the ensuing chaos would plunge Japan’s criminal scene into chaos — and the country’s one true Godfather would never be the same again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Rise of China’s Biggest Mob Boss EVER

The Rise of China’s Biggest Mob Boss EVER

Born into a peasant family on the outskirts of Shanghai, Du Yuesheng grew up an inveterate gambler and opium addict. But as he forged alliances in the growing metropolis’ underworld, members of a secr...

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Chinatown’s Gangster Prince: Shrimp Boy

Chinatown’s Gangster Prince: Shrimp Boy

Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow possesses one of the best mob nicknames out there. The San Francisco Chinatown gangster went from teenage immigrant hooligan from the streets of Hong Kong to one of the most ...

23 Kesä 1h 11min

Redux: Africa's Pablo Escobar: Ibrahim Akasha

Redux: Africa's Pablo Escobar: Ibrahim Akasha

Ibrahim Akasha was the kingpin of East Africa’s heroin highway, setting up a massive tracking empire that stretched from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Kenya, South Africa and Europe. When he was ...

16 Kesä 59min

Sex, Drugs and Shinto: How the Yakuza’s Only Woman Found Redemption

Sex, Drugs and Shinto: How the Yakuza’s Only Woman Found Redemption

When Mako Nishimura, the yakuza’s only female member, fell in love with a rival gangster, it would send her on a long and painful path from drug and sex trafficking, to painkiller addiction and finall...

9 Kesä 59min

Italy Clan Wars, Irish Gangster Politicians & Cartel Nigerian Breaking Bad: Stash House!

Italy Clan Wars, Irish Gangster Politicians & Cartel Nigerian Breaking Bad: Stash House!

On this week's Stash House: A fugitive Dutch cocaine kingpin dodges capture off the coast of West Africa. An Irish gang boss trades gangland warfare for electoral politics. Mexican officials accused o...

2 Kesä 1h 5min

The Rise and Fall of The Yakuza Devil's Child

The Rise and Fall of The Yakuza Devil's Child

Mako Nishimura graduated from high school delinquent to kamikaze biker gang, street tough and, eventually, a fully made member of a yakuza syndicate - the first (or perhaps second?) woman to do so. Ni...

26 Touko 1h 2min

The Cartel Del Noreste's Kingdom of Terror w/ Andrew Glazer

The Cartel Del Noreste's Kingdom of Terror w/ Andrew Glazer

Nuevo Laredo is one of the most feared cartel cities in Mexico, a place where disappearances, gun battles, and corruption became part of daily life as the Cartel del Noreste, or CDN, tightened its gri...

19 Touko 1h

140 Banks! The Craziest Robbery Crew You've Never Heard Of!

140 Banks! The Craziest Robbery Crew You've Never Heard Of!

Meet the Stopwatch Gang: three polite Canadian crooks turned bank robbery into a precision sport, hitting over 140 banks across North America and walking away with $15 million without firing a single ...

12 Touko 1h 6min

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