
December 14, 2003
FIVE suspected mobsters were shot dead today near Tokyo in what police believe was an internal dispute in one of Japan's biggest gangster groups.
Kaiichi Yamamoto, 56, was arrested after he turned himself in to police and confessed to the killings, police official Hideaki Nishimura said.
Police found five bodies with bullet wounds at the Sumiyoshi-Kai gang office in Iruma, a city north-west of Tokyo...
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