Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on the first floor of a building occupied by a yakuza gang.
According to police, at around 10:40 a.m. on Thursday, a call was placed from an office belonging to the Sumiyoshi-kai yakuza crime syndicate in Akasaka, Minato Ward. The caller stated that “a person was dead.” When ambulance crew rushed the scene, they discovered the body of a deceased man, Fuji TV reported.
Police said the man appeared to be in his 50s and that his face was bruised and battered.
Police said the body was found by a member of the Sumiyoshi-kai when he arrived at the office in the morning.
The crime scene is roughly 300 meters northwest of Akasaka Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line.
© Japan Today
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Simian Lane
I sense this might be mafia related..
Aly Rustom
Ya think?
Laguna
Kind of a good place to rush to to find a fresh corpse.
Kobe White Bar Owner
no great loss then.
chugmagaga
"Yakuza office", a slap on the face of law enforcement agencies.
gogogo
Someone didn't pay up... Where are the Yakuza are the friendliest people in the world posters?
toshiko
Actually, Suniyoshi Kai is not Yakuza like YamaguchiGumi. It is one of a llarge Tekiya organizations in Tokyo.
Larry Photog Houser
He "fell down the stairs"?
Mchicha NoRefrandam Wacheza
Sounds like business as usual for Yakuza
toshiko
Someone killed and dumped the dead body in the office?
spinningplates
So, I'll just drop by the Yakuza Office to hand in these tax papers...wait...wtf!?
I guess it's a Japanese police thing to keep the criminals and extortionists where they can find them, I mean they keep most of them under guard around Nagatacho.
Nan Ferra
Maybe it was mailed to the wrong address???Just sayin'....
toshiko
Until autopsy is finished, no one knows who is this corpse. Mystery continues.
Mike
I'm all for them policing themselves. It shows that they can keep there house or the house of there neighbors in order. The only time I have issue with this lot is when they go after everyday non criminal types.
CaptDingleheimer
...and the police will do nothing because they're afraid of the Yakuza.
toshiko
Bookkeepers and receptionists women in the office surely don't look like they had police training. They know how to communicate with their robo-call program. Try to visit there.
toshiko
Ask the receptionist where you can find best humberger stand nearby. Then you don't look like snooping