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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
Jake Adelstein
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