Hyogo Prefecture is home to two major organized gangs, the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime syndicate, and the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, which split from the Yamaguchi-gumi in August 2015.
The National Police Agency provided guidelines on combating shoplifters to the Japan Association of Chain ... valued at an average of 10,774 yen (US$70.36), but foreign suspects had shoplifted ...