This man said he grew up poor in eastern Japan and had dropped out of high school when he decided to join a gang. “I’ll make a name for myself in ‘gokudo’ (the yakuza world),” he said he ...

There are thought to be nearly 100,000 Yakuza members in Japan. When they enlist in individual gangs they are taken to a secret location where they are trained in hand-to-hand combat and meditation.

At the Asakusa View Hotel on October 24, 2004, a gang member shot four yakuza from a rival syndicate — two fatally — after a discussion intensified. At the time of the incident, about members of the ...

Japan has seen a surge in desperate young people committing ‘yami baito’ – small-time crimes as part-time jobs.

Despite being a public official, Hisanobu Komatsu, 72, had ties to organized crime and was considered the “Don of the City Council” while in office. The truth of the collusion that had been going on ...

A FEARED Japanese gang boss was plotting to traffic plutonium ... as part of a global web of illegal activity. The feared Yakuza crime leader now faces decades in prison after being charged ...

Court papers said Ebisawa — who U.S. prosecutors say is a leader of Japan's notorious Yakuza mafia — told the DEA's confidential source in 2020 that he had access to a large quantity of ...

Yakuza games have recently seen a rise in popularity thanks to their unique identity and tight gameplay elements.

As someone who has only casually engaged with the Yakuza / Like a Dragon series, I’m fascinated with its ability to sway in and out of different genres and subgenres while still maintaining the wacky ...

Ever since meeting Russian asset Max Meladze (Laura Haddock) in season 1 of Netflix's The Recruit, he's been in life-or-death ...

The Yakuza series has no shortage of weird and ... Outside of beating up roving gangs of pirates and the occasional bounty with my small tiger companion, I found myself recruiting a wide ...