Mako Nishimura was reportedly Japan’s first woman yakuza. After she ran away from home as a teen, she joined the organised ...

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Yakuza members show off their tattoos at a Shinto festival in Tokyo - Jiangang Wang The American journalist Jake Adelstein has spent decades in Japan exposing the secrets of organised crime gangs.

A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few female yakuza. But after clawing ...

A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few women yakuza. But after clawing her way out of the underworld, she now spends her days helping other retired ...

Roughly one in five Japanese companies shaken down by the yakuza ended up paying them off, according to a study released by Japan’s National Police Agency. Of the companies that answered the NPA ...

Nishimura, skinny with dyed-blonde hair, finally put the syndicate behind her about five years ago. She now ekes out a living ...

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TOKYO — Today on October 1st, both here in Tokyo and in Okinawa, the boryokudan haijojorei (暴力団排除条例) or organized crime exclusionary laws, go into effect, thus making all of Japan a lot less yakuza ...

Masayoshi Yokoyama is one of the main designers of hugely successful 'Yakuza' games - Copyright AFP Richard A. Brooks Masayoshi Yokoyama is one of the main designers ...

GIFU, Japan — A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few women yakuza. But after clawing her way out of the underworld, she now spends her days helping ...