WORLD : Rioters Set Street Fires in Japan
On the fourth day of a rare show of street violence in Japan, hundreds of people angry over alleged police corruption built barricades and set them on fire today in front of 1,000 riot police, who were deployed to try to stop the fighting in a rundown neighborhood.
At least 106 people, including 83 police, have been injured in the violence in the Nishinari district of Osaka since Tuesday, police reported. Forty-one people have been arrested.
The people who live in the crime-ridden district have longstanding grudges against police, and accusations made public Tuesday that a local police officer took a bribe from a gangster helped trigger the rioting. But authorities and residents said young hooligans from outside the district and leftist extremists had agitated to keep the disturbances going.
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