Chinese Dragon
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Chinese Dragon also known as "Doragon" (Japanese: 怒羅権) is the crime organization, mainly second-generation Chinese orphans. It is based in the Tokyo metropolitan area of Japan and has been recognized as a quasi-gang by the National Police Agency since 2013.
They are mainly active in Edogawa, Tokyo, and have a side as a street gang and a vehicular gang. Although their influence in the underworld is strong and they have connections to criminal organizations in the Chinese sphere, their members are often Japanese citizens or ordinary permanent residents, and they are not subject to deportation orders or deportation from Japan, even if they have been arrested for crimes.
The character of the organization is similar to mafia.
Biography edit
Chinese Dragon was formed by second-generation Chinese orphans who were persecuted due to the second generation of Chinese orphans, who were persecuted by their peers in their childhood under the world situation at the time in a temporary residential facility for returnees from China. The former Chinese Dragon did not form as a group with the characteristics of a mafia or a vehicular gang, but one of its founding members was a member of a group that was trying to counteract a group of delinquents, and this influenced it to become a juvenile delinquents. The official name of the Chinese Dragon is "怒羅権" (Doragon), but the name is said to these: "dragon" represents "China", "怒" represents "anger over bullying by the Japanese", "羅" represents "powers to defeats powerful enemies", and "権" represents "their human rights".
In the 1989s and 1990s, the Chinese Dragon became more violent and increased its power in the east area of Tokyo. Since then, unrelated pedestrians, yakuza, and delinquent groups have been victimized by Chinese Dragon in the form of blade assaults, robberies, and murders. They have established several groups throughout the Tokyo metropolitan area, and the total number of members is currently estimated to be several hundred.
In the 1990s, there was a series of hate crimes by Chinese Dragons, who repeatedly attacked the police by raising the five-star red flag and carrying weapons. In the June 1999 murder case, one of the members involved is still at large and wanted.
Former members who were in the early days, at its peak, it had about 3,000 members, and its founding members included about 800 people, most of whom were Japanese. Currently, they do not hold as much power as they did in their heyday because of increased policing from the police department.
Organizations of Chinese Dragon edit
- Kasai Doragon
- Fukagawa Doragon
- Fuchu Doragon
- Oji Doragon
- Akabane Doragon