World IN BRIEF : JAPAN : Anti-Police Protests Rage On; 171 Injured
Police fought pitched battles with rioters in Osaka as protests against alleged police corruption entered a fifth day. More than 1,100 rampaging Japanese workers set cars on fire, hurled stones and bottles, and tried to lay siege to a police station that has become a target of popular outrage over links between police and Japan’s powerful yakuza , or gangsters. Police said 171 people, including 134 police officers, have been injured in the violence, sparked by allegations that a Nishinari detective took bribes from the yakuza.
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