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Police investigate at the scene of the crime (NHK)
On the evening of November 27, local time, a shooting case occurred in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, where a high-ranking member of the local gang "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" was shot dead in the street, and the gunman fled the scene, but was arrested in Kyoto City an hour later, and his automatic rifle and pistol were confiscated.
According to a number of Japanese media reports, at 17:08 local time on the 27th, 59-year-old Keiichi Furukawa in Japan was shot dead in the streets of Amagasaki City, the gunman fled the scene by car, and was arrested in Kyoto City about 1 hour later, and his automatic rifle and pistol were taken into custody.
It is reported that Furukawa is the leader of the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group", a designated violent group in Japan, and the leader of its subordinate group "Sanshirome Furukawa Group", and the 52-year-old gunman may be a member of the "Yamaguchi Group" of the hostile gang.
The gunner or use an automatic rifle to strafe about 10 shots
According to the report, the gunman fled the scene after shooting about 10 rounds using a murder weapon suspected of being an automatic rifle, and Furukawa was taken to the hospital and confirmed dead.
Witnesses at the scene said, "After the thumping sound, the car suddenly started, and then a tattooed man fell to the ground, bleeding a lot."
Arrest scene of the gunman (NHK)
The police said, "Furukawa was shot about 10 times and died on the spot." About an hour after the incident, the Kyoto prefectural police found a suspicious vehicle near the Kyoto South Overpass, and when questioning the people inside the car, the man in the car pulled out a pistol and pointed the muzzle at the police, while holding an automatic rifle in the other hand.
The man confronted the police for some time and was arrested on the spot after being persuaded by the police. The police said the arrestees were a 52-year-old man, Asahinayud, a member of the Designated Violence Group Yamaguchi Group, who took into custody a pistol and an automatic rifle in his possession, either in the form of an M4 assault rifle.
It is reported that in March 2018 and July this year, Furukawa was twice attacked and injured by members of the "Yamaguchi Group" with baseball bats.
Japanese media also reported that before the incident, Asahina and Furukawa had dinner together at an izakaya run by Furukawa's son near the scene.
Background: The split of the Yamaguchi Group, Japan's largest gang
According to earlier Japanese media reports, the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" was split from the "Yamaguchi Group" four years ago. Later, some members left the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" and established the "Renxia Yamaguchi Group". As a result, the local gangs in Kobe are in a "three-legged" situation, and they often clash with each other.
The report also said that last year (2018), members of the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" beat up members of the "Renxia Yamaguchi Group" in February, and drove a truck into the "Renxia Yamaguchi Group" office the next day, and then drove a truck into the home of the leader of the "Yamaguchi Group" group "Kuramoto Group" in June.
In April, the leader of the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" was stabbed by members of the "Yamaguchi Group", and then in August, a member of the "Kodokai" was shot and seriously injured by members of the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" in his territory. The shooting on the 10th may have been retaliation by the "Kodokai" against the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group".
68-year-old gunman of the "Yamaguchi Group" arrested on the spot (ABC TV)
On the afternoon of October 10 this year, a 68-year-old member of the "Yamaguchi Group" shot and killed two members of another designated violent group, the Kobe Yamaguchi Group, in the street.
Coupled with the frequent gang firefights that occurred earlier, the Hyogo Prefectural Police issued an urgent order on the evening of October 11 to restrict the use of 11 facilities on both sides of the "Yamaguchi Group" and the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group", and dispatched 180 police forces to surround the headquarters of both sides.
The release of the No. 2 figure of the "Yamaguchi Group" may exacerbate gang antagonism
On October 18, Kiyoshi Takayama, the second leader of Japan's largest gang of triad violence, ended his sentence and was released from the Fuchu Prison Office in Tokyo, Japan. As soon as he was released from prison, he took the Shinkansen to Nagoya to meet with the "number one" of the Yamaguchi group. Kiyoshi Takayama, 72, was sentenced to six years in prison in 2013 for collecting huge protection fees and intimidation.
Kiyoshi Takayama on the day of his release from prison on October 18 (Kyodo News Agency)
According to the Japan Jiji News Agency, Kiyoshi Takayama was released from prison by car at about 5:50 a.m. local time on the 18th, and arrived at Shinagawa Station at 7:00 a.m. He wore a dress that was almost all black, wore a hat with the brim of the hat pressed down, a neck support around his neck, and walked with a cane. After getting on the Shinkansen, he kept talking to another male member of the group.
Kiyoshi Takayama got off at Nagoya Station at around 9 o'clock and got on the bus that came to pick him up. He will meet with the "number one" of the Yamaguchi group and the leader of the sixth generation team, Shinoda Kenichi.
Kiyoshi Takayama, the no. 2 figure in Japan's most influential mafia group, was arrested by police at his home in the early morning of November 18, 2010. Kiyoshi Takayama is the "heir" chosen by the 77-year-old Kenichi Shinoda, the sixth-generation leader of the Yamaguchi group. Shortly after Shinoda became yamaguchi's group leader in 2005, he was sentenced to six years in prison for illegally buying and selling guns and was released from prison in 2011. Therefore, Kiyoshi Takayama had previously been the leader of the Yamaguchi group.
Kenichi Shinoda (left), the 6th generation leader of the Yamaguchi group, and Kunio Inoue, the leader of the Kobe Yamaguchi group (Sankei Shimbun)
After Kiyoshi Takayama was imprisoned in June 2014, the Yamaguchi Group split into three organizations, the Yamaguchi Group, the Kobe Yamaguchi Group, and the Renxia Yamaguchi Group, and the confrontation between them was fierce.
The Japanese police believe that Takayama's release from prison may intensify the confrontation between the major gangs, and have been continuously strengthening vigilance.
The police believe that the shooting on the 27th is also related to the gang clashes between the "Yamaguchi Group" and the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group", and a detailed investigation is underway. (Overseas Network Wang Xiluo)
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