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Chimpira

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Chinpira (チンピラ, Chinpira) are low-ranking Japanese yakuza, often quite young, who are thought to be crude.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Ronald Philip Dore (8 March 2015). Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan. Princeton University Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-4008-7206-0.
  2. ^ Luis Frois SJ (14 March 2014). The First European Description of Japan, 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. Routledge. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-317-91781-6.