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Minds and Methods   Criminal Enterprises  The yakuza's tentacles
reach into many different areas, principally corporate
extortion, gambling, smuggling, loan sharking, money laundering,
narcotics, real-estate, sports, entertainment, stock
manipulation, tourist scams, sex tours, prostitution, slavery,
pornography, and gun running.  Sex-related enterprises are the
yakuza's bread and butter, and they cater to the wild side of
Japan's overworked, buttoned-down "salary men."  The yakuza
smuggle truckloads of pornographic films and magazines into
Japan from Europe and America.  They control prostitution rings
throughout the country, commonly holding young women from other
Asian countries captive as indentured servants and forcing them
to work as "comfort workers."  The Japanese euphemistically
refer to the act of prostitution as "selling spring," and
Japanese johns have a taste for very young women, as
demonstrated by the national obsession with young wo