The Inquirer News in the Philippines reports on the arrest of the number two yakuza in Japan.
TOKYO — A “one-eyed” gangster,
the number-two man in Japan’s biggest yakuza crime organization, was convicted
of extortion on Friday, winning a high-profile victory for the country’s
anti-mob police.
Kiyoshi “Mekkachi” Takayama, 65,
who reputedly lost the use of his eye in a swordfight early in his career, was
jailed for six years. His underworld nickname of “Mekkachi” means “one-eyed” in
the dialect of western Japan.
Takayama is second in command of
the Yamaguchi-gumi, a vast organized crime syndicate that had 27,700 members at
the end of 2012, according to the National Police Agency.
You can read the rest of the story via th below link:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/377995/japans-no-2-yakuza-jailed-for-extortion
You can also read my Crime Beat column on the yakuza and Jake Adelstein's Toyko Vice: An American Reporter On the Police Beat in Japan via the below link:
http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2010/03/tokyo-vice-american-reporter-on-police.html
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