BTW meetings and ceremonies are very public, police and media are often aware when big meetings take place.
That because until 1995 the japanese law doesn’t punish the fact to be a part of the yakuza but only the crimes that you commit as part of the yakuza plus the Mafia is a secret society while the yakuza members have all the body covered with tatoos because everybody must understand that you’re a yakuza member.
The Yakuza are more involved in japanese society and is not rare that high ranking members stay in big society board of control while mobsters uses figureheads.
