A senior member of Japan's largest organized crime syndicate was shot dead Wednesday in the western prefecture of Hyogo by a man armed with a submachine gun and a handgun amid a possible gang feud, police said.Keiichi Furukawa, 59, a high-ranking yakuza of Yamaguchi-gumi, was pronounced dead at a hospital after being shot on a street in Amagasaki in the prefecture shortly after 5 p.m.The suspected assailant fled by minivehicle, but police arrested him in Kyoto city about an hour after the shooting for possessing firearms.Hisanori Asahina, 52, allegedly possessed a submachine gun and a handg…READ FULL ARTICLE
