Japanese yakuza mobster sentenced to death - BBC News
Aug 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 ...
As Japan’s yakuza weakens, police focus ... - Associated Press News
May 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.
Tokuryū, a new crime menace in Japan, emerges from the shadows
May 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 —...
Japan's yakuza crime networks are shedding members as …
Oct 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...
Japanese yakuza mobster sentenced to death - BBC
Aug 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 - Tag - The Japan Times
Oct 27, 2024 · The arrest stems from an incident in which a yakuza member allegedly cut off his own finger but reported it as an accidental injury to medical personnel in Tokyo.
Yakuza boss charged with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials - ABC News
Feb 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.
Japanese yakuza boss Satoru Nomura sentenced to death for …
Aug 26, 2021 · Satoru Nomura, the 74-year-old head of the Kudo-kai crime syndicate in southwest Japan, faces the death penalty after being found guilty of ordering a murder and attacks on three other citizens.
Yakuza death sentence puts Japan’s mob on notice
Aug 29, 2021 · Nomura, head of the Fukuoka-based Kudo-kai and his second-in-command, who stood accused of one murder, three counts of attempted murder and other charges, were respectively sentenced to death and life imprisonment by the Fukuoka District Court on August 24. A yakuza gang member with iconic tattoos. Image: Twitter.
Japan appeals court commutes death sentence for yakuza boss to …
Mar 12, 2024 · The 77-year-old boss of a major yakuza crime syndicate was sentenced to life in prison by a Japanese high court on Tuesday, overturning a lower court decision that had imposed the death penalty on charges related to four attacks, including murder.