How A Cheeseburger Made A Yakuza Boss Homeless

The biggest threat to the yakuza, Japan's organized crime, may not be the police. It may be the civil courts and the burden of "employer liability".

In the yakuza world, the mighty keep falling...and falling.

What happens when you stop treating gangsters as outlaws beyond the system, and start treating them like employers inside it?

Kunio Inoue, the aging boss of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, is watching his home in Kobe’s Kita Ward head to compulsory auction. A Tokyo consulting firm took him to court over…