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Police raid gang

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Police officers line up in front of the home of the boss of the Kudo-kai crime syndicate in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2011. About 90 police officers searched the home, with some 20 riot squad members standing guard outside, in an investigation into a suspected attempted murder involving a shooting at a local construction site two days earlier.

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Fresh arrest warrant served on major Japanese gang boss

Naomasa Yoshida, head of Fukuoka prefectural police, announces that a fresh arrest warrant has been served on the boss of Kudo-kai, one of Japan's major gangster groups, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture on July 6, 2015. Satoru Nomura is suspected of violating two laws over the 2012 shooting of a former police officer and was arrested for the fifth time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Leader of major organized crime syndicate faces tax evasion charges

Naomasa Yoshida, chief of Fukuoka prefectural police, holds a press conference in Japan's western city of Kitakyushu on June 16, 2015, after serving a fresh arrest warrant on Satoru Nomura, the leader of Kudo-kai one of Japan's major crime syndicates, for allegedly hiding dues and evading income tax. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Leader of major organized crime syndicate faces tax evasion charges

Investigators carry a box out of the home of Masakichi Yamanaka, a senior member of the Kudo-kai crime syndicate, in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, during a raid on June 16, 2015. Kudo-kai's head, Satoru Nomura, was served with a fresh arrest warrant the same day for allegedly hiding hundreds of millions of yen collected from members affiliated with the group, and evading income tax, while Yamanaka and two others were arrested on suspicion of managing the dues. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Senior member of crime syndicate driven into custody

A car carrying Masakichi Yamanaka, a senior member of a major crime syndicate in Japan, enters the Fukuoka detention house in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka on June 16, 2015, after police arrested him on suspicion of managing dues illegally collected from members affiliated with the group, Kudo-kai. The leader of the group was also arrested over tax evasion. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police raid crime syndicate over violation of gun control law

Police stand in front of a building related to Japanese crime syndicate Kudo-kai in Nakama, Fukuoka Prefecture on May 15, 2015, to conduct a raid on the grounds the group violated the Swords and Firearms Control Law. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yakuza-affiliated man nabbed for alleged attempted murder with Japanese sword

A Japanese sword confiscated by police from Kosuke Hata, a senior member of a group affiliated with the Kudo-kai yakuza syndicate in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, is shown to the press on Oct. 28, 2015, at a police station in the southwestern Japan city. Hata was arrested the same day on suspicion of attempting to kill an acquaintance by stabbing him with the sword on Jan. 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police raid gang

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Police officers line up in front of the home of the boss of the Kudo-kai crime syndicate in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2011. About 90 police officers searched the home, with some 20 riot squad members standing guard outside, in an investigation into a suspected attempted murder involving a shooting at a local construction site two days earlier. (Kyodo)

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Yakuza headquarters in Japan

Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2019, shows the headquarters of the Kudo-kai crime syndicate in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yakuza headquarters in Japan

Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2019, shows the headquarters of the Kudo-kai crime syndicate in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gangsters arrested over 2011 construction worker shooting

Fukuoka prefectural police hold a press conference in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 8, 2017, announcing the arrest of several members of Kudo-kai, one of the country's major crime syndicates, over the shooting of a man at a construction site in the city in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo