OSAKA — More than 3,200 Hyogo and Osaka police officers are on alert after the boss of a powerful gang was gunned down late August 28 in a Kobe coffee shop.
The gangland hit appears to signify an internal power struggle within Yamaguchi-gumi, the country’s largest crime syndicate, police said.
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