Police crackdown on Japan's top gangs: "With Yamaguchi-gumi leader Kenichi Shinoda in Tokyo's Fuchu Prison and not due for release until April, the police believe Kiyoshi Takayama is virtually running Yamaguchi-gumi with Kodo-kai's support.
Takayama's arrest suggests the police are pursuing a strategy of undermining the nation's largest crime syndicate by targeting its top leaders.
'We can expect Yamaguchi-gumi to fall into disarray with the arrest of its second-in-command,' a senior NPA official said. 'We plan to take advantage of this opportunity to tear the organization apart.'
Kodo-kai has shown its readiness to confront the police, such as by monitoring police investigators' cars and homes.
The gang also does not hesitate to target ordinary citizens.
In October 2007, a member of Kodo-kai affiliate attacked the leader of a Kagoshima citizens' group that was working to expel crime syndicates from the area."
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