Japan's yakuza head released

KOBE, Japan - Kenichi Shinoda (C), the head of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest crime syndicate, arrives at a train station in Kobe city, where the group's headquarters are located, after being released from prison in Tokyo on April 9, 2011. Shinoda, who was arrested in 1997 on suspicion of being involved in the possession of a gun by a member of his yakuza gang, served time since December 2005. (Kyodo)

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