Police in the city of Okayama were on alert Wednesday after the deadly shooting of a senior member of a branch of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate.
Okayama Prefectural Police said Tadashi Takagi, 55, of the gang's Ikeda-gumi faction, was found dead at 9:50 a.m. on Tuesday.
He was lying face down in the parking lot of the apartment building where he lived with his family.