Regarding the Chi Outfit and Japan...I personally cant find much about it out there except for few snippets..

First, Ill start with an alleged statement made by Giancana from the Double Cross book...

"You got people eatin’ raw monkey brains and drinkin’ snake blood in Asia. They screw dogs and babies over there. They got a mob, mostly out of Japan, the Yakuza . . . that are some of the meanest motherfuckers I’ve ever seen. They’ll do anything for a buck and they control the governments.”

Mooney sighed; he was obviously tiring of the conversation, but he brightened suddenly and decided to continue. “We’ve got some pretty high hopes for those slant-eyed bastards. If the governments there play ball with our government—and why shouldn’t they?—then we’re in.”

Second, during the early 1960's Benjamin Jaffe was a Outfit associate and frontman for the Mob who was known for having interests in various establishments, both in Chicago and Las Vegas. Between 1961 and 1963 the FBI conducted investigation on Jaffe regarding hoodlum interests around the country, Mexico and Japan.



Next, here's one FBI snippet from 1967 regarding Chicago Outfit associate Allen Rothman who was the president of the of The Vending Corporation of America in Chicago since the early 1960's and so with his help and also through various legit companies, the Outfit opened up manufacturing plants and offices around the Midwest and also around the world including Japan. As I already stated in some of my previous posts, during the 1960's the vending machine business was the prime operation and also front for the Chicago syndicate to spread their influence and also both legal and illegal rackets everywhere they wanted or needed to. Rackets such as smuggling narcotics, weapons and white slavery.




As I already stated in my previous article regarding the Outfit's operations around Central and South America, the Mob was selling vending machines in various countries including the Dominican Republic. In 1964, Philadelphia boss Angelo Bruno, Ben Golob and one Charles Costello talked about the Dominican Republic offering a franchise for the vending and slot machine business from Chicago. Since the Outfit already had their own manufacturing plants around the world, the Chicago group allegedly ordered 25 new slots from their office in Japan.



And last, some sources from the late 1960's say that American mobsters such as Santo Trafficante already found their way to the Far East and established many new contacts, including in Japan. Story goes that Trafficante usually went to Japan by himself and sometimes with one Dominic Furci, and also sometimes he was allegedly accompanied by one of Giancana's associates John Drew (but I cant find the file regarding Drew). Here are few snippets so I can prove my point: