The average black person doesn't worship or give a fukk about freeway Rick Ross or Nicky Barnes and those were 2 of the biggest.
Most people can't have tattoos because the Yakuza won't allow it. Not because of some stigma, but because they are afraid of upsetting the wrong gang member with their body art. Yakuza tattoo culture has the locals living in fukking fear.
The Yakuza and Chinese Triad are glorified and unstoppably violent and respected.
The Yakuza are so numerous and upstoppable in Japan that the government doesn't even try to stop them anymore, they just relegate many of their activities and force them to pay taxes and support social programs in exchange for leniency
Five Things to Know to Avoid Doing Business with the Yakuza - Lexology
Yakuza is the only reason I even learned the term "shadow economy" they contribute probably more than 10% of Japan's total GPA ( and that's just the relegated, taxable stuff). Yakuza leaders are well know and many even hold government positions while being know Ganglords.
Estimating the size of the shadow economy in Japan: A structural model with latent variables
Mind you it's probably much, much worse than reported. These gangs are glorified in EVERYTHING.