Organized crime syndicates are not fading away, they're just becoming obsolete.
Lawyer Hideaki Kubori and journalist Atsushi Mizoguchi, the country's leading expert on the powerful Yamaguchi-gumi gang, held a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Oct. 20.
While the recent breakup of the Yamaguchi-gumi led discussions, Kubori and Mizoguchi provided a succinct outline of the yakuza syndicates' decline.