Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!The boss of Japan's most notorious Yakuza clan was sentenced to death by hanging yesterday as a wave of executions of mob chiefs looms.Japan's answer to Vito Corleone, 74-year-old Satoru Nomura never carried out a single violent crime of his own.But the murder of a fisherman in the 1990s and three vicious assaults since were assumed to be under his order.Nomura leads the infamous Kudo-kai clan of murderous Yakuza gangsters in Fukuoka, southern Japan.Prosecutors don't have a shred of evidence Nomura orchestrated the mob violence, so his punitive sentence by such an archaic method has shocked much of Japan.The gang members directly responsible were all previously convicted and handed jail.
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