{"id":9006,"date":"2013-06-10T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2013-06-10T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:34:45","slug":"the-business-of-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-business-of-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business Of Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/061013_1420_TheBusiness1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Akiko Fujita took a look at a man in Japan who&#8217;s making a killing selling prosthetic fingers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prosthetic makers generally get business from those that have been in serious accidents or have had some forms of cancer.<\/li>\n<li>However in Japan there is a large demand for prosthetic fingers from current and former members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yakuza\">Yakuza<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the Yakuza transgressions are punished by the severing of a finger. Average Japanese people have come to associate missing fingers with the Yakuza.<\/li>\n<li>For those who have decided to leave the organization this can make it incredibly difficult to find a job, as employers avoid those with former mob connections.<\/li>\n<li>For $3,000 individuals can get a carefully painted prosthetic finger that is almost indistinguishable from the real thing.<\/li>\n<li>People normally keep several fingers with them so that they can ensure that the prosthetic always matches their skin tone.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not all people looking for a job that get the prosthetics \u2013 Yakuza members invited to a grandchild&#8217;s birthday party might get one so that the family doesn&#8217;t know of the mob connection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the business of making prosthetic fingers, transgressions that can lead you to lose a finger, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/prosthetic-fingers-reform-japans-feared-yakuza-gangsters\/story?id=19337750\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/prosthetic-fingers-reform-japans-feared-yakuza-gangsters\/story?id=19337750\">ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/06\/assorted-links-817.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/japandailypress.com\/prosthetic-fingers-help-ex-yakuza-members-get-on-with-their-lives-0730222\">JDP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akiko Fujita took a look at a man in Japan who&#8217;s making a killing selling prosthetic fingers: Prosthetic makers generally get business from those that have been in serious accidents or have had some forms of cancer. However in Japan there is a large demand for prosthetic fingers from current and former members of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/061013_1420_TheBusiness1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}