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Japan’s Yakuza Cancels Halloween
Ghoulies and Ghosties
On Halloween, Japan’s largest organized crime group used to allow children to extort mobsters. But the event was called off this year due to a possible gang war.
Jake Adelstein
Published
Oct. 25 2015
12:01AM EDT
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