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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. Black Mist Scandal (Japanese baseball) - Wikipedia

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    Tsutomu Tanaka (Chunichi Dragons), Isao Takayama (Taiyō Whales), and yakuza member Hirotaka Fujinawa are arrested. May 6: Kentarō Ogawa (Chunichi Dragons) arrested for taking part in the flat track fixing. May 9: Toei Flyers pitchers Toshiaki Moriyasu and Mitsugu Tanaka are revealed to be under suspicion of throwing baseball games.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. How To Play The Yakuza Series In Chronological Order

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    Called Ryū ga Gotoku 8 in Japan, this is the first main series game in the West to use the Like a Dragon title instead of Yakuza, due to the events of the game prior.

  7. Two-Part ‘Quiet Yakuza’ to Make a Noise for Free Stone at ...

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    “The Quiet Yakuza,” is one of two late additions made by Japanese indie sales firm Free Stone Productions to its slate of films being pitched at TIFFCOM, the film rights market attached to the ...

  8. Yama—Attack to Attack - Wikipedia

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    Day laborers just happened to have a confrontation with yakuza who wanted to control the labour market, so Sato recorded both sides of the events. On December 22 of the same year, Sato was murdered by a member of the yakuza group and right-wing organization Kokusui-kai Kanamachi-ikka Nishido-gumi (国粋会金町一家西戸組). [2]

  9. This postal worker needed 16 stitches after a dog attack. In ...

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    WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Postal worker Tara Snyder needed 16 stitches after a dog attacked her when she tried to deliver mail in Pennsylvania, the state with the fourth most dog attacks on postal ...