Yakuza mobster 'cut off his own FINGER and then tried to claim treatment for it on Japan's healthcare service' By SHANNON MCGUIGAN. Published: 07:11 EDT, 12 October 2024 | Updated: 07:13 EDT, 12 ...

The yakuza is dominated by men and leaves only informal roles to women. Typically a woman might be a boss' wife who takes care of young affiliates and mediates between them and her husband.

The arrest, which was made Thursday, stems from an incident on Feb. 23 last year when Nouchi allegedly cut off his own finger but reported it as an accidental injury to medical personnel in Tokyo.

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The yakuza cut off their little finger when it’s demanded of them, but the only modern instance of that kind of ritual death is when the author Yukio Mishima did it in 1970, and he did it as a ...

Masahiro Nouchi, a 58-year-old member of the Kodo-kai yakuza group, was arrested on October 10 by police in Gifu prefecture, in central Japan, on suspicion of fraud, the Sankei newspaper reported.