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The rise and fall of the yakuza, Japan's ruthless mafia gangs
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telegraph.co.uksentenced to death this August, it sent a shock wave through the Japanese underworld. But the shock probably didn’t come close to that caused by the blast of a hand grenade thrown into a nightclub by members of the Kudo-kai after the owner refused to pay protection money.
Nor did it quite match the impact of a two-ton truck being rammed into the home of another person who hadn’t paid his dues. While Left-wing pundits and legal scholars professed to be astounded at the first case of an active yakuza boss being sentenced to death on circumstantial evidence, those who had suffered at the hands of the Kudo-kai breathed a huge sigh of relief. ‘Yakuza’ is a blanket term for a large number of organised crime groups within Japan – the Japanese.
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