It appears the National Police Agency is serious about cracking down on organized crime.
The annual White Paper on Crime, published this year on July 24, created its first separate section on organized crime since 2008 — the same year law enforcement officials acknowledged that organized crime had moved so far into the financial markets "it threatened the very economic foundations of Japan."
This year's section is entitled "Progress and prospects for organized crime countermeasures."
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