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He's been training with the Georgian Foreign Legion as a sniper, hoping to return to the front line in the upcoming spring offensive.

In fact, Harusan had no prior military experience, doesn't speak the local language, and the journey to Ukraine was his first trip abroad.

Harusan took solace with other young troublemakers. Mischief turned into criminal behaviour and by junior high school, Harusan was sentenced to juvenile prison.

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Yakuza is an umbrella term used to describe organised crime syndicates in Japan involved in racketeering, prostitution, gambling, fraud, drug trafficking and other criminal activity.

Members often mark themselves with large tattoos, but unlike some criminal gangs, these represent events or experiences from a gang member's life, rather than identifying a particular gang.

Harusan's tattoos all have a deeper meaning. The Benten Dragon on his back protects what is important. The ghost on his chest, Kasane, tells the cautionary tale about holding onto resentment. And on his leg, a wolf named Yamao means being willing to fulfil one's duty.( News: Alina Ruda )

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But laws introduced in 1992 to crack down on organised crime saw membership come crashing down, according to the National Police Agency, and gang members who were once considered part of the community started to become reviled.

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To this day, many public swimming pools refuse patrons with tattoos, and former yakuza find it difficult to access bank accounts, sign rental agreements, or simply live in the community as a katagi (law-abiding citizen).

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Harusan had detonated a homemade bomb at the entrance of an organisation that promoted friendly relations between China and Japan. The doors were damaged, but no-one was injured.

Harusan said he was furious about China's treatment of Tibetans and Uyghurs. He says the attack was not intended to hurt anyone, but rather to serve as a warning.

Police raided his home and seized 400 items, including literature related to right-wing groups, extremists, gangs and terrorism, according to a local media report at the time.

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The investigation team believes that the suspect gradually became more and more inclined towards right-wing ideology in his 20s and targeted groups that he thought did not match his anti-Chinese views, the media report stated.

Harusan says sitting in a jail cell is where he had an epiphany: he needed to drastically change his life.( News: Alina Ruda )

Harusan was sentenced to nine years in jail for violating the explosive substances control law. An extra year was slapped onto his sentence after he beat up a fellow inmate.

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I thought I didn't want to be like them, and I thought I had to make an effort every day to change myself.

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There are reports of volunteers bickering, falsifying their fighting experience, misspending donated money and even revealing their units' confidential locations by posting photos and videos on social media.

I can't do anything on my own, but I can't turn a blind eye to the situation, so I thought I would like to be of some help.

After serving his time, he made it to Kyiv, through Poland, and headed to a recruitment centre for a division of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with a British army veteran he had befriended.

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But the British volunteer vouched for him. He told the recruiters that his friend's past life with the yazuka would make him a fierce comrade.

The recruiter thought about it for a while and eventually said, 'it's OK if the British man is going to support you'. That's how I got in, Harusan says.

His unit was transferred to the city of Lysychansk, in the Donbas region, where fierce fighting has taken place between Ukrainian and Russian forces.

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Harusan was lucky enough not to endure the worst of the shelling. Some of his close friends never made it out alive.

It was so intense that I laughed hard with a Ukrainian who was hiding in the trench with me about how great the attack was.

After the attack, Harusan's division was disbanded. Determined to stay in Ukraine, he joined the Georgian Foreign Legion, a unit founded back in 2014 when violence first erupted between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists.

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It has evolved into one of the largest foreign fighting units in Ukraine with around 1, 000 troops, split equally between Georgian fighters and volunteers from other countries.

It is also one of the most elite units in Ukraine, with specially trained squads being sent out for covert assignments including sabotage, ambush, and reconnaissance missions.

He understood Harusan had no military background before Ukraine, but was happy to take a chance as previous volunteers from Japan had proven to be good soldiers.

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I have regrets, but on the other hand, if I regret too much, I wouldn't be able to move forward, he says.

People say that what I'm doing is amazing, but from my point of view, I think it's natural for a human being.

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KOBE -- After 14 years in prison, a 44-year-old former yakuza who has returned to society is afraid to even speak to young people working at convenience stores. He starts looking for work, and reunites with his family, but things don't go quite as expected.

So goes the story in the novel Mushoboke, which roughly translates to dulled by prison life. Published by Shogakukan Inc., the book has drawn attention for the way it depicts a former yakuza's life after leaving prison. The Shimbun spoke with the author, Garyo Okita, 45, to hear his thoughts on the book.

The basic premise is as follows. After graduating from junior high school, the protagonist Sosuke Jinnai goes from being in a biker gang to joining an organized crime group. One day, he lets slip to his wife that he has a big job to carry out, and, under orders from leaders of his group, he goes and shoots the head of a rival gang. He is then charged with attempted murder and is given a prison sentence.

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For the shooting, he is promised 50 million yen (about $443, 000) and a high position in the organization. But he is expelled from the group shortly after being taken into a detention center, and his wife files for divorce. After 14 years inside, Jinnai holds a smartphone for the first time in his life, and his young children have grown to be 21 and 18.

Okita hails from the Hyogo Prefecture city of Amagasaki in west Japan. Like Jinnai, he joined a local organization that was part of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza group when he was 16. He would steal cars and commit other crimes, and went to prison twice for a total of about 12 years. During his incarceration, the group dissolved. Just before he turned 40, he went straight. Okita says he wrote the book based on his experiences.

Although the main character's work as a hitman is a fictional setup for the book, there are real portrayals visible in the work, too.

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A scene from the drama adaptation of Mushoboke is seen in this image provided by Asahi Television Broadcasting Corp. Sosuke Jinnai, left, is portrayed by Yukiya Kitamura, while a prison warden is played by Itsuji Itao.

In his prison life, Jinnai has an infatuation with KitKat-level high class candy. This is based on Okita's real experiences. Around the time he was 30 and spending New Year's Eve in prison, a warden handed out KitKat chocolates. It was a special treat, not like the things usually distributed in the prison. Some of the inmates were surprised to the point of incredulity. Okita smiled and said, It makes you wonder how they could be so happy over something like that, doesn't it? I wanted to write it in a way that makes people laugh out loud.

After leaving prison, the unemployed Jinnai visits an interior construction firm run by a former head of the criminal organization. There, he excoriates his former boss for the unfair way he was cast out of the group, telling him, You made my life a waste, aren't you going to take responsibility for it? As his terrified former boss apologizes, Jinnai barks at him, Are you going to hire me or not? After some initial bemusement, the former boss accepts, and Jinnai starts working at the interior construction firm.

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He works hard. While feeling isolated, like he's been left behind by society, he earns a daily wage of about 8, 500 yen

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