Suicide of Shinji Ishihara led police to suspect he was behind the fatal strangulation of a former taxi driver in Toshima Ward last year
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Yamaguchi-gumi is Japan’s largest organized crime (yakuza) group
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
Defendants worked to together to fatally shoot a Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi member inside a building in Nagoya's Naka Ward in 2016
Gang members allegedly collected ¥50,000 from two employees of sex businesses in the Susukino red-light district on January 3
Shukan Shincho says that a city councilor for Kashiba City was a once a member of the Yamaken-gumi
Suspect allegedly beat the gang boss in the head with a metal rod