The group had up to about 1,500 scouts nationwide, and its annual revenue is believed to have reached about ¥5 billion.

Belgian photographer Anton Kusters spent two years with a feared Yakuza crime family in Tokyo and was given intimate access to their secretive, and often violent, inner circle. The yakuza began as ...

A 58-year-old man has been arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police under the suspicion of sexually assaulting a ...

A former gangster who left the yakuza underworld several years ago said ... As of April, the center’s branches in 37 prefectures, including Tokyo, had signed a job-assistance collaboration ...

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 ...

These real cities in Japan served as the major inspiration for some of the Yakuza franchise's most iconic locations.

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 ...

According to the department's division dealing with "yakuza" crime syndicates, Natural began its activities mainly in Tokyo's Kabukicho nightlife district around 2009. The group had up to about ...

Mieko Kami, a 74-year-old Tokyo flower arrangement teacher, had no experience with criminals before joining the scheme. When first approached, “I thought, ‘there’s no way I can do this’“, Kami told ...

Majima voice actor Hidenari Ugaki talks about his experience voicing the iconic character in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.