To compensate, Yakuza groups plunged into financial fraud, stock manipulation, and cybercrime, giving rise to a new generation of gangster-nerds, more interested in business than blackmail. For instance, “Yamaguchi-Gumi,” the largest Yakuza organization in Japan, boasts roughly 36,000 members and associate members, constituting less than a half of the total Yakuza gangsters in Japan, and is estimated to haul in as much as ¥2 trillion ($21 billion) annually.