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Trick or Trafficking? Japanese mafia hand out candy to kids on Halloween, get away with it again
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Katy Kelly
Nov 3, 2018
Gangsters from the yakuza group Yamaguchi-gumi were spotted with cute treat bags, surrounded by smiling children and furious adults.
- Japan
- (halloween • Organized crime • weird • yakuza • yamaguchi-gumi)
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