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  2. Murder of Junko Furuta - Wikipedia

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    Furuta was born on 18 January 1971 and grew up in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, where she lived with her parents, older brother, and younger brother. [4] At the time of her murder, she was a 17-year-old senior at Yashio-Minami High School, and worked a part-time job at a plastic molding factory from October 1988 to save up money for a planned graduation trip. [1]

  3. List of major crimes in Japan - Wikipedia

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    A 17-month-long series of extortion against confectionery companies starting in a kidnap of the president of Glico and involving confectionery spiked with cyanide. 1985–1989: Yama-Ichi War: 29: Kansai region: A Yakuza gang war between the Yamaguchi-gumi and the breakaway Ichiwa-kai faction that began over the death of kumicho Kazuo Taoka.

  4. Takeshi Ebisawa - Wikipedia

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    Takeshi Ebisawa (born circa 1964) is the purported leader of a transnational Japanese crime syndicate, known as the yakuza.He gained international notoriety following his arrest and subsequent guilty plea to charges involving the trafficking of nuclear materials, narcotics, and weapons.

  5. Yoshinori Watanabe - Wikipedia

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    Yoshinori Watanabe (渡辺 芳則, Watanabe Yoshinori, January 5, 1941 – December 1, 2012) was a yakuza, the fifth kumicho (chairman or Godfather) of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization. He became kumicho in 1989. [1]

  6. Crime in Japan - Wikipedia

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    [5] In 1990 the police identified over 2.2 million Penal Code violations. Two types of violations — larceny (65.1 percent of total violation) and negligent homicide or injury as a result of accidents (26.2%) — accounted for over 90 percent of criminal offenses. [6] In 2002, the number of crimes recorded was 2,853,739.

  7. How To Play The Yakuza Series In Chronological Order

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    Yakuza 0 might be the first game in the series chronologically, but it wasn’t actually the first to be released, coming after the release of Yakuza 5. Yakuza 0 takes place in late-1988 to early ...

  8. Fushin-sen - Wikipedia

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    The term fushin-sen has become synonymous with North Korean vessels that serve as a connection between North Korean criminal activity and the Yakuza. [3] There are incidents of fushin-sen being involved in the smuggling of agents, illegal immigrants, and drugs, as well as the abduction and trafficking of Japanese people.

  9. Masaru Takumi - Wikipedia

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    Masaru Takumi (宅見 勝 Takumi Masaru; June 22, 1936 – August 28, 1997) was a powerful Japanese organized crime figure assassinated in 1997.Until his death, he was the second-in-command (wakagashira) and financial overseer of Japan's largest yakuza gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi.