Can you believe this? A bunch of gangsters in Japan went to a police station to tell the cops there that they've decided to dissolve their own branch of an infamous underworld organisation because their boss had murdered Mayor Iccho Ito of Nagasaki, Japan, and they did not approved of what he did.
Police said the gunman was Tetsuya Shiroo, 59, head of an underworld faction that is part of a national criminal syndicate called the Yamaguchi-gumi. The gunman was tackled by bystanders and police after firing the shots. Japanese crime syndicates have ties to some nationalist political organistions, and there was immediate speculation that the shooting may have been politically motivated.
I don't think this is going to happen anywhere in the world other than Japan.
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The Times had coverage on the shooting but not the dissolution of the gang or I didn't read that. According to Times report, the gangster was angry at the mayor because the city didn't compensate the damage the city construction site inflicted on his car. For that reason to shoot the major? it doesn't seem very convincing but you never know.
I got the dissolution part from HK Cable TV News. I've tried to find
corroboration in related coverage on the Net but failed to get any.
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