As Japan’s yakuza weakens, police focus ... - Associated Press News
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 ...
Feds charge Japanese Yakuza leader with nuclear materials …
WEBFeb 21, 2024 · NBC News. Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday said they charged a Japanese Yakuza leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries in the belief that...
'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 —...
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 ...
'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 ...
Yakuza boss charged with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials - ABC News
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.
Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Announces Nuclear ...
WEBFeb 21, 2024 · Justice Department Announces Nuclear Materials Trafficking Charges Against Japanese Yakuza Leader. Wednesday, February 21, 2024. For Immediate Release. Office of Public Affairs. Takeshi Ebisawa, Leader within the Yakuza Transnational Organized Crime Syndicate, Allegedly Trafficked Nuclear Materials, Including Uranium and Weapons-Grade Plutonium.
Japan appeals court commutes death sentence for yakuza boss to …
WEBMar 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.
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