Japan gang boss ‘bludgeoned to death’

A gang boss in Japan’s Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate was bludgeoned to death on Sunday, according to reports. Tatsuyuki Hishida’s wife and fellow gang members found him collapsed and bleeding at a house in Mie prefecture, the Mainichi Shimbun said. Hishida’s hands and feet were reportedly tied, and his head appeared to have been hit with […]

A gang boss in Japan’s Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate was bludgeoned to death on Sunday, according to reports.
Tatsuyuki Hishida’s wife and fellow gang members found him collapsed and bleeding at a house in Mie prefecture, the Mainichi Shimbun said.
Hishida’s hands and feet were reportedly tied, and his head appeared to have been hit with a blunt object.
The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest organised crime group, split in two in September.
Police said the incident was likely related to the split, which saw the emergence of a rival group calling itself the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi.
Hishida was the leader of a second-tier Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate group called the Aio-kai, in Yokkaichi in Mie prefecture.