As for the business cards… I don’t think Kinkos isn’t going to cut it with the big bosses. I’ve read they like to carry those fancy cards, the ones with real gold prints, etc. Unless Kinko offers this service?

I foresee this blowing up in their faces. The thing is, this might prevent some people from wanting to become Yakuza. However, it will make life so much more difficult for existing Yakuza that they will have no choice but to resort to crime in order to survive. For example, if you cannot buy food anywhere, you still need to eat. If you cannot obtain food legally because nobody will do business with you, then your only recourse is to steal it.

The thing is, organized crime is often a symptom of failures in the system. Basically, some problems have made it difficult for some people to get educated, find work and/or protect themselves. Everyone is just trying to get by and for some it seems to them like the only way to accomplish that is through joining a gang. Stuff like this don’t fix the problem, it makes it worse. Gangs are made up of people that society has left behind. It is that apathy (and animosity) which led to the current situation. The solution isn’t more of the same.

I see this possibly leading to a new black market opening up for Yakuza liaisons. The Yakuza might start hiring straight-laced looking individuals to handle their day to day business operations. If you need to get some pizza for all the guys, you just pay someone in a suit to go down to the pizza place and pick it up under the pretense that it’s for a party. As for business cards, I guarantee that Kinko’s America would take it up. I used to work for them and I’ve made business cards for Russian pimps before (they’ve got a very diverse clientele). Once again, if they have difficulty dealing with the companies over here, they could hire an American to place the order and ship it to them… although they would have to hire someone in Japan to receive and deliver the order since FedEx Japan might not want to do business with them.