Yakuza members show off their tattoos at a Shinto festival in Tokyo - Jiangang Wang The American journalist Jake Adelstein has spent decades in Japan exposing the secrets of organised crime gangs.

Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend ...

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 were arrested in Tokyo ...

She now spends her days helping other retired gangsters reintegrate into society. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...