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 female yakuza. But after clawing ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's banking industry body said it plans to share its data on organized crime syndicates with consumer credit agencies and other financial companies as part of new measures to ...

Japanese crime lords have apparently been sending members of The View gifts in the post. The Dundonian group were banned from the country after frontman Kyle Falconer was convicted of cocaine ...

a Japanese mobster this year with conspiring to traffic nuclear-weapons material to an Iranian general, they exposed one piece of a shadowy international network that continues to preoccupy security ...

One acting agency is supporting former mobsters who want to make efforts to turn their lives around. The "Yakuza" is the name given to organized crime groups in Japan. Similar to the mafia, these ...

Alexander Abad-Santos is a former writer for The Wire.

A prosthetics maker never expected his job to lead him to the underworld. TOKYO June 7, 2013— -- Shintaro Hayashi never expected his job to lead him to the underworld. The prosthetics maker built ...

SAN DIEGO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Japanese actor Ryoma Takeuchi believes that video game fans will find a special connection to the new television series “Like a Dragon: Yakuza.” The series, based on the ...

A gangster is calmly explaining to a nervous and sweating Hank Fisher that there are two Japans. There is the very safe one that most people experience. “But the other Japan is different,” Suzuki ...