But last week four men were arrested in Tokyo for a more mundane crime - operating a yakuza office too close to a library. The suspects, ages 55 to 77, “conspired” to operate an office from ...

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 ...

Originally released as a PlayStation 2 game in 2005, Yakuza (Ryu ga Gotoku in Japan) spawned a lengthy and beloved video game ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Think of Japan’s famed yakuza gangs and you might think of heavily tattooed men getting into bloody fights – the stuff of action films and video games. But last week four men ...