It’s the latest headache for Japan’s longest-serving premier, who has already weathered two cronyism scandals in recent years

And they get prosthetic pinkies to replace the tips of the digits they were forced to cut off.

It sounds like a humdrum church newsletter, but "Yamaguchi-gumi Shinpo" is the newly published official magazine of Japan’s powerful crime syndicate.

Organised crime in Japan is under threat from new laws that will lead to the naming, shaming and fining of citizens who do business with the yakuza.