Source: Overseas Network
Automatic rifles used by both sides in the conflict (Sankei Shimbun)
Overseas network december 26 , Japan's Hyogo Prefecture police announced on the 26th that due to the intensification of the conflict between the designated violent groups "Yamaguchi Group" and "Kobe Yamaguchi Group", the activities of members of both sides will be strictly restricted, and from the same day, more than 5 people from both sides will be prohibited from gathering, entering their respective offices, and pestering members of opposing groups, and if any member violates the police, they can be arrested.
"Yamaguchi Group" 68-year-old gunman arrested after killing people in the street (ABC TV)
According to the Japanese Communist News Agency reported on the 26th, since April this year, there have been many clashes between the two major Japanese gangs, the "Yamaguchi Group" and the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group", such as attempted knife wounding and shooting.
On April 18 this year, members of the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" stabbed members of the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" core organization ,"Kodokai" in the street;
On August 21, another member of the "Yamaguchi Group" was shot and seriously injured by Hiroshi Nakata, the number two person in the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group", in the Kobe office;
On October 10, a gang gunfight occurred in Kobe City, Japan, and two members of the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" shot a member of the "Yamaguchi Group" in the street;
On November 27, Kobe Yamaguchi Group leader Kojikawa Washiichi was killed by a former member of the "Yamaguchi Group" shooting more than 30 rounds with an automatic rifle from a row in the streets of Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture.
On the evening of December 16, a member of the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" with a kitchen knife tried to attack the male members of the "Yamaguchi Group", but was pushed to the ground and sent to the traffic police.
Police convey order to facility residents (Kobe Shimbun)
As early as 2015, the Yamaguchi Group, japan's largest violent organization at the time, split into two groups: the Yamaguchi Group and the Kobe Yamaguchi Group. Since then, there have been conflicts between the two gangs, but the police said that both the "Yamaguchi Group" and the "Kobe Yamaguchi Group" are facing the possibility of disintegration.
In order to avoid further intensification of clashes, hyogo prefectural police joined forces with the police of Osaka and Aichi prefectures in early December to strengthen surveillance of members of both sides in the Kansai and Chubu regions of Japan.
Japanese film based on the Hiroshima Protests (infographic)
According to earlier Japanese media reports, in the 1950s and 1960s, there were large-scale clashes between gangsters such as the "Yamaguchi Group" and the "Yamamura Group" in Hiroshima City, with a total of 9 people killed, 13 injured, and 168 arrested, which became the prototype of many Japanese gangster movies. (Overseas Network Wang Xiluo)
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