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| ...but not once in my whole interest in Japan have I come across a news headline that told of a Yakuza crime. |
You did not ask specifically for deaths, but crimes, the Yakuza are responsible for. I never insulted you. My mentally-impaired comment applied to all who were defending the Yakuza as some sort of males-only social club.
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Slain woman's kin to meet killer
SENDAI (Kyodo) The Sendai District Court has decided to allow the relatives of a woman beaten to death four years ago to meet one of her convicted killers in prison, it was learned Thursday.
Satomi Hikichi died on Dec. 24, 2000, after she was attacked by a group of eight people at a yakuza office in Sendai and other locations in the city. She was just 20 years old at the time.
The perpetrators were indicted and given varying court sentences in earlier criminal trials.
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Gangland power vacuum leaves Kobe residents gasping
By ERIC JOHNSTON
Staff writer
KOBE -- Nada Ward is one of Kobe's better neighborhoods, home to senior business executives and foreign diplomats, and known for its good schools and small, trendy shops and cafes.
But many in the ward are wondering if the peace and quiet will last.
That's because this upscale district is also home to the country's largest organized crime syndicate: the Yamaguchi-gumi.
The Yamaguchi-gumi has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty following leader Yoshinori Watanabe's announcement late last month that he would "take a break" from his responsibilities.
Police and yakuza-watchers in the media emphasize that Watanabe has not formally resigned -- at least not yet.
Police noted that he did not say how long his "break" would last, and said they do not expect a formal transfer of power anytime soon. But it has still prompted jitters among some Nada Ward residents.
"Normally, when gang members come to town, they show up and leave without causing a disturbance," said Yuka Higashida, 37, who lives a few doors away from Yamaguchi-gumi headquarters. "But a lot of us are now worried that Watanabe's (reported) de facto resignation will lead to violence whenever gang members gather."
Watanabe's announcement, made in a message faxed to leaders of affiliate groups nationwide, did not catch police and journalists who cover the Yamaguchi-gumi by complete surprise.
On Nov. 12, the Supreme Court ruled that Watanabe, as head of the Yamaguchi-gumi, was legally responsible for the actions of affiliated gangsters. The lawsuit had been filed by the family of a police officer who had been fatally shot in Kyoto by a Yamaguchi-gumi-linked mobster in 1995.
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Lack of action here gives human-trafficking low profile: ILO
By NAO SHIMOYACHI
Staff writer
Public awareness of human-trafficking is low in Japan because of slow government action and a lack of legislation that directly addresses the problem, according a draft report by the International Labor Organization obtained Wednesday.
The report, "Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Japan," was compiled by the ILO Office in Japan. It primarily focuses on the experiences and conditions of human-trafficking victims.
Nearly one-third of the 81-page report is dedicated to case studies based on interviews with victims and diplomatic personnel from the places they were brought from.
The study shows how they are recruited, brought to Japan and forced to work in the sex industry under yakuza control. It also reports on the physical and mental effects the crime has on the victims and how they are treated by governmental and nongovernmental organizations in Japan.
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Mob boss ordered to compensate victims' kin
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the head of the nation's largest crime syndicate to pay damages to the family of a police officer who was gunned down by members of an affiliated gang.
Upholding the Osaka High Court ruling, the court rejected the appeal by Yamaguchi-gumi boss Yoshinori Watanabe, 63, and ordered him and three members of the affiliated group to pay a total 80 million yen in damages for mistakenly killing Sgt. Tsuyoshi Fujitake, 44, in Kyoto in 1995 during a feud with a rival gang.
This is the first time that the top court has held a yakuza boss responsible for a criminal act in which he did not directly take part.
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Mom, boys pulled from watery grave following yakuza wife's confession
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) The bodies of a woman and two teenage boys were removed from a submerged car Thursday night in a Fukuoka Prefecture river based on information provided by a mobster's wife, police said Friday.
A crane lifts a minivehicle containing the bodies of three murder victims out of the Suwa River in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Thursday night.
The bodies were found inside the minivehicle in the Suwa River in Omuta based on information provided by Mami Kitamura, who had earlier confessed to killing the three and another teenage boy and had told police where to find the corpses.
The three were identified following an autopsy as Sayoko Takami, 58, her 18-year-old son, Tatsuyuki, and Junichi Hara, 17, a friend of Tatsuyuki. They all appear to have been dead for about a week.
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May I add that this is just a sampling of headlines dating all the way back to September 2004! There are countless others. No crimes, huh? No death?  |
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