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- noun The younger brothers. They are children or
wakashu of theoyabun his brothers. They are under the control of thekyodai (the brothers), but in the end it is still the word of the oyabun that is final. The shatei have their own sub-divisions in the yakuza clan.
Etymologies
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From the Japanese Yakuza hierarchy
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