It's like a mob movie.
Cars and trucks are crashing into the buildings of the nation's largest yakuza crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, and its splinter group the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, putting police on high alert.
On early Thursday in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, a SUV ran into the garage of a house where the head of a Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi-affiliated group lives. Police officers who were monitoring the house arrested the driver, Akira Matsubara, 34, a member of a Yamaguchi-gumi-affiliated group, on the spot.