THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 29, 2020 at 19:00 JST
Kabukicho, Japan’s largest red-light district, in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A brawl that erupted in Tokyo’s Kabukicho, Japan's largest red-light district, was apparently a flareup in a simmering turf war between a yakuza crime syndicate and a well-financed, aggressive “scouting” organization. [Read More]
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