The UFC in Japan??

Dana White recently was asked if the UFC was headed back to Japan. He responded by saying that there "are people in Japan who want to kill me." I am curious how much White is really threatened by Japanese organized crime? Why would the Yakuza want to kill White anyway? How much of this threat is real and how much of it is hyperbole? Does the Yakuza have that big of a vested interest in Japanese promotions like Dream and Sengoku? If they do, than how much stock can we put in the outcomes of those fights as being legitimate?

I might be blowing Whites comments out of porportion or just taking them out of context. White might simply mean that Japanese fans hate him for dismatling Pride and will do him bodily harm when his plane touches down over there. That seems to be a strange take on the quiet and conservative Japanese MMA fan base however.

This post is more questions than answers. But stay tuned fight fans because one way or another the UFC will end up in Japan eventually.