Most fans know about classic Japanese samurai films, but their gangster classics are essential viewing and this masterpiece ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

TOKYOTOKYO — A senior member of yakuza was arrested for allegedly stealing Pokemon cards near Tokyo in April, a case seen as an example of Japanese organized crime groups struggling with declining ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nishimura, skinny with dyed-blonde hair, finally put the syndicate behind her about five years ago. She now ekes out a living at demolition sites — one of the few jobs that tolerates her full-sleeve ...

The Like a Dragon series – known for most of its life as the Yakuza series – has just had its latest release, the elegantly titled Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. But as you may ...

Like a Dragon Ichiban Kasuga figure and, when it did, confirmed that Nancy the crawfish will be included with him as an acces ...

CrossWorlds officially confirms the release date for the upcoming Yakuza DLC, with fans able to play as Ichiban Kasuga soon.