Police to cooperate in setting up organized crime database

It was announced today that the National Police Agency (NPA) agreed to cooperate with the Japan Security Dealers Association (JSDA) in providing information for a database on organized crime, sharing information on around 38,000 known organized crime members–such as name and age–with the 302 companies belonging to the association. The unprecedented agreement by the police to cooperate was seen as a way to combat organized crime members opening securities accounts. The new system would come...