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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the weekend, Sega released a new trailer for its upcoming remake of Yakuza 3, giving players a closer look at the game's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore a mysterious underground car park in Japan filled with abandoned Yakuza cars! From rare classics to multi-million-dollar vehicles, this video uncovers some of the most incredible forgotten ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — A senior member of yakuza was ...