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Yakuza Feud Brewing In Akasaka

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Yakuza Feud Brewing In Akasaka

Postby Mulboyne » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:19 pm

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Yomiuri: Trouble feared as gang moves HQ few blocks from enemy's
The Metropolitan Police Department announced Wednesday that the Inagawa-kai crime syndicate has moved its headquarters from Roppongi, Minato Ward, Tokyo, to Akasaka in the ward, about 250 meters from rival Sumiyoshi-kai's headquarters. According to the MPD, the Akasaka building in which the new Inagawa-kai headquarters is housed was purchased by an affiliated firm of the gang organization in September together with its land lot. The firm's president is a senior Inagawa-kai member...Sumiyoshi-kai's headquarters is located in a condominium about 250 meters northeast of the new Inagawa-kai headquarters building. Sumiyoshi-kai claims areas around its headquarters as its operating territory...The MPD believes tension between the two groups could rise as Inagawa-kai relocated its headquarters to the Akasaka building. MPD sources said that a senior Inagawa-kai member told an MPD investigator who was monitoring a New Year meeting of Inagawa-kai in Yokohama on Wednesday that the gang had started to use the Akasaka building as its headquarters starting that day...The land measures about 100 square meters, and the building has a floor space of about 260 square meters, covering three stories and a basement. The gang's former headquarters is situated near the recently built Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi...more...

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The map above shows the Sumiyoshi building across the road from TBS. The old Inagawakai building is marked with the yellow circle across from Tokyo Midtown while their new one is marked with the red cross.
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Postby leitmotiv » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:43 pm

LOL The friggin' cops anounce it. Do they also organize a neighborhood house-warming cheese and fruit basket? Only in Japan. :three:
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Postby Behan » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:20 pm

I wonder if those windows are bulletproof glass?
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Postby kusai Jijii » Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:03 pm

Can someone please explain to me WHY THE FUCK the pigs just cant roll up to both addresses, arrest every pencil-dicked yak cunt in both buildings, lock 'em up, and throw away the keys?
Yak fucks.
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:13 pm

Why don't we just enlist them to find one Tatsuya Ichihashi, and call it even?
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Postby Doctor Stop » Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:18 pm

kusai Jijii wrote:Can someone please explain to me WHY THE FUCK the pigs just roll up to both addresses, arrest every pencil-dicked yak cunt in both buildings, lock 'em up, and throw away the keys?
Because that will stop the envelopes from magically appearing every month.
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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:31 pm

An affiliated firm, eh? I wonder if that's Goldman Sachs Realty or Lone Star.
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Postby wuchan » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:10 pm

Doctor Stop wrote:Because that will stop the envelopes from magically appearing every month.

exactly.
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Postby kusai Jijii » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:22 pm

Doctor Stop wrote:Because that will stop the envelopes from magically appearing every month.


you know, I dont think its a corruption thing so much as a PUSSY thing, right Taro?
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Postby Takechanpoo » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:35 pm

kusai Jijii wrote:Can someone please explain to me WHY THE FUCK the pigs just cant roll up to both addresses, arrest every pencil-dicked yak cunt in both buildings, lock 'em up, and throw away the keys?
Yak fucks.

Hey,
you better not become elated so much.
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:02 am

Coming down hard on gangsters can have serious consequences...

the main contention in "Legacy of Secrecy" that the assassination (of JFK) was engineered by Carlos Marcello, longtime Mafia boss in New Orleans. That theory is far from new. There's evidence that Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the president's brother, believed it. Authors Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann broaden the theme.

Marcello had a special grudge against the Kennedys because Robert, who fought organized crime, once had him deported to an uncomfortable exile in Central America. Born in Tunisia, Marcello carried false papers that gave Guatemala as his country of origin. He soon found his way back to the United States...


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Hotel Cancels Yakuza Bonenkai (Sorry if off-topic)

Postby Behan » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:08 am

His [Brendan Behan's] last words were to several nuns standing over his bed, "God bless you, may your sons all be bishops."
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Postby Mulboyne » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:04 am

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Postby Greji » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:36 am

"There are those that learn by reading. Then a few who learn by observation. The rest have to piss on an electric fence and find out for themselves!"- Will Rogers
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Postby Behan » Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:04 pm

Originally Posted by Mulboyne(in the Times article)

Police also believe that crime groups have begun arming themselves more heavily, with weaponry such as hand-grenades and antipersonnel mines.


I think there was something in a TV news program about someone being arrested for possessing a hand-grendade.

I wonder if the Yak offices have claymores strung up around them. That would keep intruders out.
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Postby Catoneinutica » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:57 pm

Tokyo set for a turf war as recession-hit yakuza gangsters fight it out

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5478513.ece

FG's own Joshua Adelstein is quoted.
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Postby wuchan » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:42 pm

Greji wrote:I imagine that if they jump right on that at their usual pace, removal should occur around the summer of 2023.....
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typo? Didn't you mean 2203?
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Postby Mulboyne » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:56 pm

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Local residents protest outside the new Inagawakai headquarters.
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Postby IkemenTommy » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:47 am

Mulboyne wrote:Local residents protest outside the new Inagawakai headquarters.

Nice, and a can of gasoline and fire do wonders, or so I have heard..:flame:
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Postby kusai Jijii » Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:13 am

good on 'em. The more people who show some balls, the sooner the Yak problem is contained.
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Follow LA's Example?

Postby Behan » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:25 pm

In new tactic, L.A. goes after gangs' money
Los Angeles – The gang capital of the world is taking a new tack against them: cash damages

The city of Los Angeles, plagued by 23,000 violent gang crimes since 2004, including 784 murders and 12,000 felony assaults, announced Tuesday that it had won its first civil judgment, for $5 million, against a criminal gang that had dominated the heroin trade downtown for decades.

The verdict could bode well for another first-of-its-kind lawsuit ....


[SIZE="4"]LA gang members upon hearing they had lost their precedent-setting legal case[/SIZE]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090115/ts_csm/apayup
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jla in the media again

Postby omae mona » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:12 pm

Former gaijin Yomiuri Shimbun crime reporter Jake Adelstein, who has visited us here on FG as user "jla", was just interviewed by the Economist. Here's the audio recording (sorry, couldn't embed it). It's kind of a yakuza primer. Length 10:47.

Thanks to our very own gkanai for spotting this.
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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:47 pm

AP: Sayonara, mobsters; neighbors oust Japanese gangs
Having one Japanese gang headquartered in their neighborhood was bad enough. When a rival mob tried to move in, the neighbors did something that was once almost unthinkable. They organized, called the cops, went to court to evict the newcomers, and won. Japanese gangsters, known as yakuza, once operated from well-marked offices, often with signs out front and symbols of their trade such as lanterns and samurai swords visible through the windows. Yakuza - the word means good-for-nothing - were even romanticized as noble outlaws with a code of honor. That mystique is evaporating, however. "Civil action is growing across the country," said Yasushi Murakami, a lawyer for 160 residents of Tokyo's Akasaka district who, after a months-long battle, won a court-mediated settlement in April to keep out the 4,800-member Inagawa-kai syndicate. "People are refusing to tolerate gangsters."

The battle in Akasaka, an upscale business and entertainment district, underscores a sea change in the way Japanese regard the underworld. For decades, gangs were allowed a certain amount of swagger in exchange for cooperating with police to keep turf wars in check and away from the public. One reason for the public's change of attitude is a spate of gang violence, underscored by the shooting of Iccho Ito, 61-year-old mayor of Nagasaki, as he campaigned for re-election outside a train station in April 2007. The killer, a Yamaguchi-gumi gunman with a grievance against the city, is now under sentence of death. The murder was seen by many as an attack on Japanese democracy. A month later a policeman was killed in a shooting rampage in central Japan, and last July came the fatal shooting of a loan company official outside his house in Fukuoka. "What we worry about most is our children," said Akasaka resident Takako Takemura. "We just do not want gangsters in our neighborhood."

In response to the violence, the government has tightened its gun and racketeering laws, and last year, police held anti-gang seminars and provided protection to residents as part of their assistance in more than 50 lawsuits by neighborhoods seeking to keep out gangs. The Akasaka settlement effectively bars the Inagawa-kai, Japan's third largest crime syndicate, from owning and moving into a three-story building a few blocks from the headquarters of the rival Sumiyoshi-kai, the second largest group. But the larger gang may also be on the way out, because Minato ward's assembly, which oversees Akasaka, has resolved to rid the neighborhood of all gangs, and has disqualified gang members from renting public housing there.

Another sign of ebbing tolerance for gangs comes from Japanese companies, some of which have adopted rules against paying protection money. In Sendai, northern Japan, nearly 500 residents are seeking a court injunction against an affiliate of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest gang. In the south, a court upheld demands by 100 residents to ban the yakuza from using an apartment building, and hundreds of people in the town of Chikushino helped run a gang out of a two-story house that is now a police station. "It was possible because we stood up together against gangsters," said Masanori Hoashi, a Chikushino official. "Many people feel more strongly about guarding their community against organized crime."

The yakuza's typical rackets are extortion, gambling, prostitution, gunrunning, drug-trafficking and construction kickback schemes. Police identify 22 groups nationwide as crime syndicates and estimate membership at 80,000. Their activities are restricted but not banned, because forming a group isn't illegal. The lawsuits may be getting the gangsters out of the neighborhoods, but apparently not out of crime. The gangster population has remained largely unchanged and arrests have fallen - 26,061 last year, down from 1,108 a year earlier, according to Hideaki Aihara of the nonprofit Japan Crime Prevention Association. "If gangsters move out of one building, it's not the end of the story," Aihara said. "They're still around, making trouble somewhere else."
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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:09 pm

arrests have fallen - 26,061 last year, down from 1,108 a year earlier


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