Tokyo
CNN
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Think of Japan’s famed yakuza gangs and you might think of heavily tattooed men getting into bloody fights – the stuff of action films and video games.
But last week four men were arrested in Tokyo for a more mundane crime – operating a yakuza office too close to a library.
The suspects, ages 55 to 77, “conspired” to operate an office from June 2024 to February 2025, “despite the fact that the area was within a 200 meter radius around a library,” said police in a statement. The city has strict rules on where yakuza offices can operate, as part of their campaign to eliminate organized crime.
The oldest man, 77, was a…
