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 ...

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

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 ...

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

TOKYO, Jan 23 — Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife ... But after three years she changed her mind and was soon sipping tea with a yakuza gangster, helping a young man in a squalid apartment ...

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 ...

An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicates has pleaded ... what he believed to be drug money from New York to Tokyo.” CNN has reached out to Ebisawa’s lawyers for comment on ...

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