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1 week ago |
cnnbrasil.com.br | Junko Ogura |Helen Regan
A maior organização criminosa do Japão, a Yakuza, prometeu encerrar a longa guerra com uma facção rival e se abster de causar “problemas”, disseram as autoridades. Isso acontece enquanto os grupos mafiosos enfrentam a queda no número de membros e o aumento da repressão policial. Três membros seniores do Yamaguchi-gumi visitaram a sede da polícia da província de Hyogo na segunda-feira (7).
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1 week ago |
cnn.com | Junko Ogura |Helen Regan
Tokyo CNN — Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend with falling membership and increased police crackdowns. Three senior members of the Yamaguchi-gumi visited the Hyogo Prefectural police headquarters on Monday and delivered a letter to officers pledging to “end all internal fighting” and to “never cause any trouble,” police told CNN.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Junko Ogura |Helen Regan
Junko Ogura and Helen Regan, CNNFri, April 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM UTC3 min readJapan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend with falling membership and increased police crackdowns.
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2 months ago |
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Jessie Yeung |Junko Ogura
Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN13 February 2025 at 6:19 pm·4-min readNights out drinking can often end badly. But in Japan, they have a habit of going spectacularly wrong for government employees – who on at least two occasions in recent years have lost sensitive personal data after a few too many beers. An employee of the Finance Ministry’s customs and tariff bureau went drinking with a colleague after work last Thursday, in the city of Yokohama south of Tokyo, the ministry told CNN.
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2 months ago |
wfft.com | Juliana Liu |Junko Ogura
Hong Kong/Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s Nissan and Honda have ended discussions on a deal that would have created the world’s third-largest carmaker. The two companies, along with their junior partner Mitsubishi Motors, agreed to “terminate” a memorandum of understanding to join forces, Nissan said in a statement on Thursday.
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