As a Brit living in Japan, I'm struck that the connection between organised crime and seaside towns seems, unsurprisingly really, to be a universal phenomenom.

As a Brit living in Japan, I'm struck that the connection between organised crime and seaside towns seems, unsurprisingly really, to be a universal phenomenom. For example, in Japan the seaside town of Atami in Shizuoka is where the Inagawa-kai (3rd largest yakuza group) was founded in 1949. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inagawa-kai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inagawa-kai