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Image copyright AFP Image caption Shigeharu Shirai is to be extradited to Japan 
  
 Thai police have arrested a Japanese yakuza boss on the run for 15 years after pictures of his tattoos went viral on Facebook. 
  
 Shigeharu Shirai is accused of murdering a gang rival in 2003. 
  
 The photographs of the 74-year old fugitive's elaborate yakuza tattoos were taken by a local person in Thailand unaware of his identity. 
  
 The mafia-like yakuza gangs have been part of Japanese society for centuries and have an estimated 60,000 members. 
  
 While the gangs themselves are not illegal, much of their earnings are gained illicitly through gambling, prostitution, drug trafficking and cyber-hacking. 
  
 When the pictures of Mr Shirai went viral they caught the attention of Japanese police who requested his arrest. 
  
 Police detained him in the town of Lopburi, north of Bangkok, for visa violations and he will be extradited to Japan to face the murder charges. 
  
 According to Thai police, he admitted he was a member of a yakuza gang but did not confess to the 2003 murder. He fled Japan for Thailand in 2005. 
  
 Tattoos and a missing finger 
  
 The Facebook pictures show an old and frail-looking man with his entire back and most of his chest covered in tattoos. He is seen playing a board game with other retirees by the side of the road. 
  
 Pictures also show that he is missing part of his little finger, often a self-administered punishment for members of Japan's yakuza gangs to atone for mistakes. ||||| Japanese gang member Shigeharu Shirai displays his tattoos at a police station during a press conference in Lopburi, central Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Thai police have arrested the 72-year-old... (Associated Press) 
  
 BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police have arrested a 72-year-old Japanese fugitive who was recognized when his full-body tattoos were circulated online. 
  
 A police statement said Shigeharu Shirai was arrested Wednesday in a province north of Bangkok, where he has been hiding for over 10 years to evade murder charges in Japan in connection with the death of a rival gang member. 
  
 His arrest apparently came after photos of him sitting around a checkers table were posted on Facebook in August last year by a Thai who was impressed by the man's tattoos. The post was shared over 10,000 times when some users identified the former gang member. 
  
 Police Gen. Wirachai Songmetta said that Japanese associates paid visits to Shirai two to three times a year, each time bearing cash gifts at around 10,000 baht ($312). He's married to a Thai woman and kept a low profile over the past decade, police said. 
  
 According to police, Shirai was a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi gang, a faction within Japan's Yakuza. He's implicated, along with seven others, in the killing of Kashihiko Otobe, who was the deputy leader of the rival Kamiya gang. 
  
 Shirai will face illegal entry charges before he is handed over to Japanese authorities, the police statement said. ||||| BANGKOK (AFP) - A retired Japanese crime boss has been arrested in Thailand ending more than 14 years on the run after photos of his 'Yakuza' tattoos and a missing little finger went viral. 
  
 The fugitive, Shigeharu Shirai, 72, was arrested by a SWAT team on Wednesday (Jan 10) in the sleepy central Thai market town of Lopburi while he was out shopping. 
  
 Japanese authorities have called for his arrest over an alleged role in the shooting of a rival in Japan in 2003, after which he fled to Thailand, married a Thai woman and drifted into a seemingly peaceful retirement. 
  
 That was until a Thai local posted some photos of the diminutive, frail-looking retiree playing a streetside checkers game with his intricate gang tattoos on full show and a missing little finger - yakuza members often slice off the tip of a finger to atone for an offence. 
  
 The photos were shared more than 10,000 times online and caught the attention of Japanese police, who asked the Thai authorities to move in. 
  
 "The suspect admitted that he was the leader of the Yakuza sub-gang Kodokai," Thai police spokesman General Wirachai Songmetta said, referring to an affiliate of Japan's largest yakuza gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi. 
  
 The yakuza emerged in the chaos of post-war Japan turning into multi-billion-dollar criminal organisations involved in everything from gambling, drugs and prostitution to loan sharking, protection rackets and white-collar crime. 
  
 They were long tolerated as a necessary evil to keep order on the streets and getting things done quickly - however dubious the means. 
  
 Unlike the Italian Mafia or Chinese triads, yakuza are not illegal and each group has its own headquarters in full view of police. 
  
 Shigeharu Shirai stands accused of shooting dead the boss of a rival faction for which seven other members of his gang were caught and imprisoned for between 12 and 17 years. 
  
 "The suspect has not confessed to murder but has admitted that the victim used to bully him," the Thai police spokesman added. 
  
 The mobster boss kept a “low profile” during his stay in Thailand, police said, receiving money two or three times each year from a visiting Japanese man. 
  
 With no passport or visa, he was officially arrested for entering Thailand illegally and could be extradited to face prosecution in Japan as early as Friday. 
  
 Around 70,000 Japanese live in Thailand and Japan is the country’s biggest investor, largely in the automobile and electronics sectors. |||||
Output:
A Japanese yakuza boss who's been a fugitive since allegedly committing a 2003 murder was done in by his extensive tattoos. The BBC reports Facebook photos of Shigeharu Shirai, variously reported as being 72 or 74, showed the frail and elderly man doing what frail and elderly men might do: playing checkers with peers alongside a road in Thailand. Except these photos, posted in August, went viral, ostensibly because they show Shirai's extensive chest and back tattoos. The person who took the images didn't know who Shirai was but admired the marks. Japanese police took notice of the images and asked their Thai counterparts to apprehend Shirai, which they did Wednesday in the town of Lopburi on the grounds of visa violations. He'll be extradited to Japan in connection with the 2003 murder of a rival. Another giveaway: The photos showed Shirai absent the tip of his pinkie, a common self-inflicted punishment among those yakuza who've made a mistake. Shirai reportedly fled to Thailand in 2005 and married a woman there, and the AP reports by way of police that Shirai was visited two or three times annually by cronies who provided him with cash. AFP reports eight gang members were said to be involved in the rival's murder; the others were all arrested and sentenced to 12 to 17 years. (Ready to leave the yakuza? This woman will provide a fake finger.)