Suspect allegedly threatened the woman into paying ¥90,000 in cash for a pine decoration commonly hung outside for the New Year's holiday
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Yamaguchi-gumi is Japan’s largest organized crime (yakuza) group
Victim was told by a person pretending to be a representative of the Financial Services Agency that her bank account was being abused by a third party
Yamaguchi-gumi stood at the top with 10,300 members at the end of the year
Boss of an affiliate gang of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi suffered a broken nose in the attack
Suicide of Shinji Ishihara led police to suspect he was behind the fatal strangulation of a former taxi driver in Toshima Ward last year
Suspect told police, 'I wanted to stab a person, anyone was fine'
Suspect is alleged to have repeatedly beaten the head of a 59-year-old boss of the Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi inside the parlor
A truck plowed into an okonomiyaki shop affiliated with the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi in Kishiwada City last year
Top boss Yoshinori Oda and other executive of the Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi failed to attend a meeting to comment on the gang's possible designation as 'violent'
Defendant allegedly conspired with 7 other persons in the shooting death of an upper-level member of the Kodo-kai in the town of Takasucho in Tsu City in July of 2003