Yamaguchi disclosed this matter to the media.

Abe held a meeting with Natsuo Yamaguchi, the leader of the Komeito Party, in his official residence in the afternoon.

Yamaguchi requested to keep Keiichi Ishii, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport from the Komeito Party, in his current position.

So it is likely that next year will see a showdown between the police and the Yamaguchi Gumi. The Sumo gambling scandal, indeed, may be a prelude to it.

To compensate, Yakuza groups plunged into financial fraud, stock manipulation, and cybercrime, giving rise to a new generation of gangster nerds, more interested in business than blackmail. For instance, Yamaguchi Gumi, the largest Yakuza organization in Japan, boasts roughly 36,000 members and associate members, constituting less than a half of the total Yakuza gangsters in Japan, and is estimated to haul in as much as 2 trillion ( 21 billion) annually.