Yakuza successions are publicly announced and endorsed across rival gangs

Evidence

In the Japanese yakuza “succession is announced with some formality in the relevant social segments of the underworld,” and whenever possible it is also endorsed by bosses of rival groups: “In the case of the Sumiyoshi-ikka in Tokyo, for example, the names of more than two hundred bosses including the presidents of The main families in the whole of Tokyo, in Kanagawa, Chiba, and in other areas, were listed in a leaflet as supporters of the succession to the headship of this ikka” (Iwai 1986: 217). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 827

Categorization

• XREF: The cross-gang endorsement of a successor echoes the reader’s Gambetta/‘private protection’ framing: rival bosses vouch for a new leader, making succession itself a collective-reputation signal rather than a purely internal matter.