Vacation in Japan in 2 days. Count 'em. 1.........2! I'm PUMPED. Japanese Goal: Be-friend a Yakuza (the funny Japanese mafia) member. More challenging but still do-able Japanese goal: Befriend a Korean Yakuza member.

Wikipedia:

While Koreans in Japan comprise only 0.5% of the population, they are a prominent part of Yakuza, despite or perhaps because Koreans suffer severe discrimination in Japanese society along with burakumin.^[14][15] In the early 1990s, 18 of 90 top bosses of Inagawa-kai were ethnic Koreans. National Police Agency (Japan) suggested Koreans comprised 10% along with 70% of burakumin in Yamaguchi-gumi.^[14] Some of the representatives of the designated Bōryokudan are also.^[16] The Korean significance had been an untouchable taboo in Japan and one of the reasons that the Japanese version of Kaplan and Dubro's Yakuza (1986) had not been published until 1991 with deletion of Korean-related description such as the component of Yamaguchi-gumi.^[17]

Although Japanese-born people of Korean ancestry are a significant segment of the Japanese population, they are still considered resident aliens because of their nationality. But Koreans, who are often shunned in legitimate trades, are embraced by the Japanese yakuza precisely because they fit the group's "outsider" image.

Can I do it? We shall see........stories to come!