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Yakut
Siberian people who speak a Turkic language. Most were formerly seminomadic, raising cattle and horses. They lived in winter settlements of earth-covered log huts and summer camps of conical birch-bark tents near pasturage and sources of hay for winter fodder. Through assimilation, many S Yakut turned to farming while N Yakut adopted reindeer breeding from the Evenki. The Yakut were noted for their ironwork (supernatural power was attributed to blacksmiths) and also made pottery; traditional arts such as ivory and wood carving are still practiced. Filmmaking has become popular more recently. The Yakut number about 380,000. See also Siberian peoples.
yakuza
Japanese gangsters. Yakuza, who trace their roots back to ronin, often adopt samurai-like rituals and identify themselves with elaborate body tattoos. They engage in such organized-crime pursuits as extortion, blackmail, smuggling, prostitution, drugs, and gambling, and they control many restaurants, bars, trucking companies, and taxi fleets in Japanese cities. Their numbers today exceed 150,000; they are organized into more than 2,000 gangs, most affiliated under the umbrella of one of a dozen or fewer conglomerate gangs. Yakuza gangs are rigidly hierarchical, and the price for disappointing the gang is often to be forced to cut off one's own finger.
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