{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "More Yakuza 0 thoughts", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/190640997368/", "html": "<p class=\"npf_quote\">More Yakuza 0 thoughts</p><ul><li>It&rsquo;s not just Japanese faces and types, especially in the Osaka-based area it&rsquo;s an interesting presentation of Chinese and Korean people from a Japanese perspective</li><li>(a disproportionate share of Yakuza are ethnic Koreans or else <i>burakumin</i>, the outcast caste ethnically indistinguishable from other <i>Yamato</i>, the dominant &ldquo;Japanese&rdquo; ethnicity)</li><li>Used to Majima from Kiwami as a figure of wacky fun; weird to take him seriously as a tragic figure bonding with a sex slave over being tortuously disfigured; interesting to find that &ldquo;slugger&rdquo; and &ldquo;breaker&rdquo; were real fighting styles</li><li>Interesting how Yakuza fashion in &lsquo;88 Tokyo is shiny fabrics and fancy tailoring and in more hayseed Osaka it&rsquo;s like, checked fabric suits that &ldquo;meant&rdquo; the same kinda rube tryhard thing in America</li></ul>"}