More than six months after mobster Kunihiko Konishi was arrested for decades of embezzlement, Osaka is set to scrap two dozen city projects to aid the plight of the local 'buraku" community of descendents of the feudal outcast class.
Konishi, a senior leader of the Buraku Liberation League's Osaka chapter, was arrested in May and charged with embezzling in connection with his management of a city-owned parking lot. Since then, the city has been mired in corruption and embezzlement scandals, and it was revealed that he is a senior figure in the Yamaguchi-gumi underworld syndicate.
Konishi's arrest exposed decades of corruption involving city-funded projects to aid the plight of the buraku people.