Japanese minister admits Yakuza ties

“There is growing pressure on Japan’s justice minister to resign after just three weeks in the job over media reports that he had past ties to organised crime. Keishu Tanaka does not deny he once had ties to one of Japan’s notorious Yakuza crime gangs, but he says it was 30 years ago and is an old story. However several gang members have told a well-known American investigative reporter Mr Tanaka still had ties to the Yakuza gang until two years ago.”

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