National / Media | DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN Sep 3, 2016
One year on, gang splinter is tough to explain
by Jake Adelstein
More than a year has passed since the country's largest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, split into two. More than a dozen gangs defected from the Yamaguchi-gumi on Aug. 27, 2015, to form the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, headed by Kunio Inoue, as a rival syndicate and, ...