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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exploring the superficial use of Japanese culture in Indian films, highlighting a lack of genuine engagement and meaningful ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

TOKYO — 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 ...