Irony: the Mafia pays the military a visit in this classic Monty Python skit
Even Japan’s infamous mafia groups are helping out with the relief efforts and showing a strain of civic duty. Jake Adelstein reports on why the police don’t want you to know about it. The worst of times sometimes brings out the best in people, even in Japan’s “losers” (Yakuza) a.k.a. the Japanese mafia. Hours after the first shock waves hit, two of the largest crime groups went into action, opening their offices to those stranded in Tokyo, and shipping food, water, and blankets to the devastated areas in two-ton trucks and whatever vehicles they could get moving. More>>
