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Examples
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The yakusa are a living plague and they should be crushed the minute they reveal themselves, without ceremony, without a second thought.
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Apparently, it signifies the typical number of neurons required to find his jeans reasonably priced, or it's a yakusa-like ceremony to prove loyalty, as seen here.
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I would like them to use tanks or machine-gun carriers when they attack the castle, but the roads are too narrow and the yakusa will see them coming.
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The commissaris wondered if the rage would kill a yakusa.
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“The yakusa are gangsters, miss?” the commissaris asked.
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The yakusa allowed themselves to be pushed, grinning at the antics of the three pompous but elegant men in their brocade vests and wide trousers.
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The yakusa chief, or the daimyo, as he is called, is a powerful man.
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He had thought that they were really wasting their time, that proper detection would give them results and lead them to the yakusa, that they were being silly adventurers, blundering about.
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The yakusa, all in dark neat suits, white shirts and black ties, were the frame that contained the moving picture.
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Mr. Fujitani was a yakusa, but a very innocent one.
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