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Yakuza cause stir at sumo match

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 28 January 2010
The Mainichi reported on Jan. 26 about an uproar (if it can be called that) in the sumo world after Sumiyoshi-kai members were spotted occupying ringside tomari-seki seats at the New Year’s sumo tournament on Jan. 18 in Ryogoku, Tokyo. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department spotted the head of the gang affiliated with the Sumiyoshi-kai [...]
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Failed pick-up line: “I’m a yakuza boss”

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 20 January 2010
Sankei News reported that a 34-year-old man was charged with rape after a rather dodgy incident where he told a woman that he was a yakuza member and forced her to have sex with him last December. Naoki Kambara, a part-time worker at a shipping company, threatened a young woman on a street in Tokyo’s Kokubunji [...]
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