> A tasteful photo spread features Yamaguchi-gumi members making their first annual visit to a hatsumode, a Shinto shrine, and pounding rice cakes A hatsumode

> A tasteful photo spread features Yamaguchi-gumi members making their first annual visit to a hatsumode, a Shinto shrine, and pounding rice cakes A hatsumode is not a Shinto shrine, but the first visit to a shrine on New Years. Getting this wrong makes me doubt the rest of this article.