Testing time for Japanese gangsters
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They're members of the biggest baddest organised crime group in Japan, but these tattooed gangsters are being sent back to school by their godfathers. Under new laws, mob bosses can be sued for the misdeeds of their underlings. So the leaders of the feared Yamaguchi Gumi have begun testing their mobsters' knowledge of the laws. They've drawn up a twelve page test paper which questions them on a range of banned activities, from boot-legging fuel to dumping industrial waste.
From Tokyo, North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy reports.
Presenter: Mark Willacy
Speaker: Masahiro Tomura, former police chief of Fukuoka prefecture;
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