Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, conducting research on Japanese organised crime (yakuza) and emerging criminal groups in Japan.
Yakuza battle Chinese gangs for control of Japan's criminal underworld
Jan 31, 2023 07:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
On the afternoon of October 16 last year a brawl erupted between two groups of gangsters in a restaurant on the 58th floor of the Sunshine 60 high-rise building in Ikebukuro, a central neighbourhood of Tokyo. A group of...
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