Episode 538: The Manhattan Project Part VI - The Greatest Generation
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The Complexity of the Yakuza in Japan
The yakuza were most cruel with the children of haroshima and nagasaki who could disappear without anyone noticing or caring. The orphan boys had relatively innocuous jobs They would use shoe polish stalls as fronts to sell bootleg alcohol and heroin Yeah, it's complex because japan did yeah after all start the war Well on the negative side of the occupation there was collaboration in both the sale of black market goods and heavy participation by the americans in a massive Sex slave trade that was created in the chaos of a country that was still starving.
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