(Title: Informal and Formal Controls Against Yakuza in Japan) This research explores how far yakuza's development in Japan and to find social factors which affecting its change. The methods used are literary research. This paper discusses the implementation of formal and informal social control in Japanese society and its ties to yakuza. The fact that yakuza, as Japanese mafia, have been intervening its society for decades, is a strange phenomenon since Japan is known for its low crimes as portrayed on most of the media. The formal control section will be focused on the National Police Agency of Japan, while the informal control section will be focused on Japanese society, emphasizing on its culture. Both controls leave the door open for yakuza to establish power in society. This may lead to the conclusion that Japan’s social control is relatively weak.
Linguistics studies language as a means of communication. Communication is not limited to verbal speech but also written ones, such as remarks available in short stories. This means that modalities in a short story can be a valid object to be researched. Modality is a marker that expresses a speaker's attitude towards a proposition as well as towards an interlocutor. This research aims to determine modalities used in the short story of Issunboushi. Data is gathered by library research technique, meanwhile analysis method used is qualitative descriptive by observation and note-taking technique. As a result, there are 7 types of modality that can be found, such as irai, ishi, setsumei, meirei, ganbou, hikyou, and gaigen. These modalities' usage are related to context and settings presented in the story.
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