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[Link] ‘You’ll Regret This For the Rest of Your Life’: Yakuza Boss Told Judge After Death Sentence

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

Satoru Nomura, the 74-year-old head of one of Japan’s most dangerous crime groups, Kudo-kai, was convicted for the attacks, including the killing of a fishermen’s union chief, carried out between 1998 and 2014. His second-in-command, 65-year-old Fumio Tanoue, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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