Police took action against 12,000 people over tokuryū in 2025

Senior officials from the Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama and Kanagawa prefectural police hold a joint news conference in Tokyo in December following arrests of four suspected masterminds behind a series of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area last year
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Japanese police took action against 12,178 people over crimes related to tokuryū anonymous and transient crime groups in 2025, the National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday.In a report on organized crime released the same day, the NPA pointed to connections between tokuryū groups and traditional crime syndicates
The agency aims to uncover the full picture of tokuryū groups and identify their leaders, with its intelligence analysis office and a special team of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department, both established last year, leading the efforts.The number of individuals subject to police action was up by 2,073 from 2024
Of the 2025 total, 4,759, or roughly 40%, were applicants for so-called dark part-time jobs.

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