As Japan's yakuza weakens, police focus shifts ... - Associated Press …
WEBMay 18, 2024 — Police in Japan who were busy tracking thousands of yakuza members just a few years ago have set their eyes on a new threat: unorganized and loosely connected groups they believe are behind a series of crimes once dominated by yakuza.
Japanese yakuza mobster sentenced to death - BBC News
WEBAug 24, 2021 — A court in south-western Japan has sentenced the head of a powerful crime syndicate to death by hanging. The court in the city of Fukuoka found that Nomura Satoru, aged 74, had ordered four ...
'Yakuza Boss' Charged With Attempt to Sell Nuclear Materials
WEBFeb 22, 2024 — Japanese ‘Yakuza Boss’ Charged With Attempting to Sell Nuclear Materials from Myanmar. Takeshi Ebisawa poses with a rocket launcher during a meeting with an informant and two undercover Danish ...
Tokuryū, a new crime menace in Japan, emerges from the shadows
WEBMay 6, 2024 — Japan's introduction of laws and regulations against organized crime in recent years forced the yakuza into hiding, but in the wake of this comes a new menace in the form of the tokuryū —...
YAKUZA - Tag - The Japan Times
WEBJul 29, 2024 — 'We don't hit women': How Yakuza differs from Grand Theft Auto Designer Masayoshi Yokoyama sat down to discuss video game violence ahead of the Jan. 26 release of the latest in the Yakuza...
Japan's yakuza crime networks are shedding members as …
WEBOct 18, 2021 — Yakuza membership is plummeting — the result of a decade of intensifying crackdowns targeting organized crime and the yakuza’s reach into illegal activities including drug trafficking, money...
'You will regret this': Japan crime boss's chilling threat ... - Sky News
WEBAug 26, 2021 — A Japanese crime boss issued a sinister warning to a judge after he was sentenced to death for ordering a murder and attacks on citizens. Satoru Nomura, the 74-year-old head of the Kudo-kai yakuza ...
Japanese yakuza mobster sentenced to death - BBC
WEBAug 24, 2021 — A court in south-western Japan has sentenced the head of a powerful crime syndicate to death by hanging. The court in the city of Fukuoka found that Nomura Satoru, aged 74, had ordered four ...
Yakuza boss charged with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials
WEBFeb 21, 2024 — The Justice Department unsealed new charges against a leader of the notorious Japanese Yakuza gang who they accuse of attempting to traffic weapons-grade nuclear materials from Burma to other countries, according to a newly announced superseding indictment.
US prosecutors say alleged yakuza boss planned to sell missiles to ...
WEBApr 8, 2022 — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Takeshi Ebisawa, who they described as a leader in a network of Japanese crime families known as yakuza, and a co-conspirator agreed to buy the missiles...
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