The YAKUZA BOSS who became a BILLIONAIRE - Ishii Susumu

There are countless gangsters that have made disgusting amounts of money over the years, but very few of them have managed to accumulate as big of a fortune as Ishii Susumu. You might have never heard of the guy, but the former boss of the Inagawa-Kai, one of Japan’s biggest Yakuza gangs ever, was a master at both gathering huge amounts of money, as well as spending it in spectacular fashion. In today’s video, we take a look at how exactly he managed to go from barely avoiding death during World War II to becoming one of the richest gang bosses that the world has ever seen.

This is the story of Ishii Susumu, the gangster with the golden touch!

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SOURCES:

https://www.amazon.com/Yakuza-Crimina...

https://content.time.com/time/subscri...

https://yakuzahistory.wordpress.com/i...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...

https://asialinkbusiness.com.au/japan....


CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Humble Beginnings
03:29 - Inagawa-kai
07:33 - The Golden Touch
15:27 - The Bubble Bursts

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