New gang war in Japan threatened...gangs buying up guns and hitmen, Dated.. November 2015...

[2aguy]

wait..what.......that is soooooo 2006....now another gang war ........already....?

By Benjamin David Baker
November 20, 2015

Japan Faces a Possible Mob War After Yakuza Gang Fractures

However, few things are more dangerous than when mob families go to war.

Wait...what.....but...they have gun control in Japan..right?

This fear seems to have been vindicated. According to the Asahi Shimbun, both the Yamaguchi-gumi and the thirteen splinter groups have been busy buying up weapons and lining up hitmen. The first shots in this mob war might have already been fired outside a hot spring facility in Iida, Nagano Prefecture. The 43-year-old man who was shot and killed outside a bathhouse on October 6 wanted to leave a Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate and join the newly formed rival organization consisting of the rebel gangs.

In what might be retaliation for this murder, a boss in the original Yamaguchi-gumi was killed on Sunday. Tatsuyuki Hishida was found tied up in his apartment after being bludgeoned to death. Police report that the killing was most likely in response to the Yamaguchi-gumi’s split.


this is the 3rd gang war I have read about tonight....and they all used guns and the war in 2006....they preferred grenades and machine guns......in gun controlled Japan.....

The Japanese government has good reason to fear a gang war. Between 1985 and 1987, 25 Yakuza members were killed and around 70 were injured in a feud involving affiliated rival gangs. That bloodshed was triggered in part over disagreement over who should become the head of the Yamaguchi-gumi. A few years ago, another war broke out between two rival gangs on the southern island of Kyushu, in which mobsters attacked each other with machine guns and grenades.

 

[2aguy]

And more on the guns and hitmen angle......in gun free Japan....

Yakuza rivals buying up guns, recruiting assassins - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

Sources with links to organized crime said mobsters are recruiting members of foreign gangs to hunt down rivals. The recruitment drive for assassins is also aimed at young men who hope to make names for themselves and one day become full-fledged gang members, the sources said.

One source said an acquaintance in his 20s had been approached for a possible job.

“By proposing high pay, the recruiters are trying to encourage the gang warfare by hinting that those who carry out the first hits will be paid more,” the source said.

A former high-ranking gang member living in the Kanto region said he began receiving calls asking about the availability of loaded guns from around late August, when the Yamaguchi-gumi split came to light.

The calls, eight in total, to the former gangster’s mobile phone continued into September.

Without saying who made the calls, the former gangster said the requests likely came from both sides involved in the Yamaguchi-gumi breakup.

The large number of intermediaries involved in supplying guns made it difficult to pinpoint who was actually going on the shopping spree, the former mobster said.


But don't worry....not one, law abiding Japanese citizen will have a gun during this gang war...with guns and probably grenades.....

 

[waltky]

Sounds like a kamakazi mission to me.