Category Archives: Organized Crime

NPA statistics looking good for Kodo-kai crackdown efforts

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 21 August 2010
If numbers mean anything, then the National Police Agency’s crackdown on the Yamaguchi-gumi Kodo-kai led by director Takaharu Ando has been something of a success. The NPA released arrest figures(...)
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Divvying up the booty from the Susumu Kajiyama loansharking case

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 6 August 2010
Tokyo District Court on Thursday began the necessary procedures to divide up nearly 2.38 billion yen in damages to those caught up in a 2003 international money laundering scheme run(...)
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Cracking down: Sumo scandal just a part of larger anti-yakuza operation

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 30 July 2010
Sumo scandal news may have begun to quiet down with the end of the Nagoya Tournament, but this great article from Gavin Blair at the Christian Science Monitor tells the(...)
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Reports of Nagoya tournament suffering due to sumo scandal

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 15 July 2010
Amongst much controversy, the Grand Sumo Nagoya Tournament has gone on (mostly) as planned, despite NHK’s refusal to broadcast the event and a boycott by a number of sponsors (but(...)
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Dirty diapers: How the sumo scandal is a casualty of the National Police Agency war on the yakuza

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 10 July 2010
Sumo, yakuza, and gambling–What started as a scoop by weekly magazine Shukan Shincho revealing a somewhat imaginable connection between the three has blown up into a huge scandal that has(...)
Also posted in On the Record | 16 Comments

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