The 77-year-old boss of a major yakuza crime syndicate was sentenced to life in prison by a Japanese high court on Tuesday, overturning a lower court decision that had imposed the death penalty on charges related to four attacks, including murder.In the sentencing, Kudo-kai leader Satoru Nomura was acquitted of the 1998 fatal shooting of a former head of a local fisheries cooperative in the southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka. However, he was found guilty of three cases of attempted organized murder against a former police officer, nurse and dentist between 2012 and 2014.Based on circumstant…READ FULL ARTICLE