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NEWS ABOUT: Yakuza

Yakuza stories: 4 news summaries

 In Japan, Sun Sets 
 on Yakuza Mob Scene 

Japan's criminal gangs are losing their semi-legitimate status

Feb 28, 09 5:24 AM CST
(Newser) - The role of the yakuza in Japanese society has always been hard for Westerners to understand. Since the 1950s the mafia-like organization has been tolerated by government and the public, trusted to run gambling and prostitution rackets with a modicum of respect for social order. But as a tough economy... More »

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crime • Japan • organized crime • Yakuza • gangs • protection • cybercrime • gangsters

Japanese Mob Boss Gave $100K to UCLA

Goto rewards hospital after controversial kidney transplant

May 31, 08 4:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Suspected Japanese mob boss Tadmasa Goto donated $100,000 to UCLA just months after getting a liver transplant there, the Los Angeles Times reports. Goto was treated in 2001, a year when 186 people died waiting for livers in the LA area alone. The school has confirmed Goto’s... More »

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Japan • Yakuza • UCLA • Charles Grassley • UCLA Medical Center • liver transplants

4 Japanese Gangsters Get UCLA Liver Transplants

FBI helped one crime boss with his visa

May 30, 08 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four Yakuza gangsters, including one of Japan's most powerful crime bosses, had liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center between 2000 and 2004, the Los Angeles Times reports. Organs were particularly scarce in those years, with over 100 people on the waiting list dying each year. There is no indication that... More »

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Japan • organ transplants • organized crime • Yakuza • UCLA Medical Center • liver transplants • gangsters

Mobster Guns Down Nagasaki Mayor

Officials attribute slaying to grudge against city

Apr 18, 07 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mayor of Nagasaki was murdered yesterday by a gangster affiliated with Japan's largest organized-crime syndicate. The assassin, who shot Iccho Ito twice in the back, reportedly was steamed that the city refused to pay for damages to his car after he drove it into a hole at a construction... More »

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Japan • organized crime • Iccho Ito • Yakuza • murder • Nagasaki • Tetsuya Shiroo

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