Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heavily tattooed yakuza members seen at the Sanja Matsuri Festival in Tokyo's Asakusa district on May 14, 2016. - Richard Atrero ...

CNN — 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 ...

Four members of Japan's notorious Yakuza crime syndicate have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to operate near a public library. They are part of the Sumiyoshi-kai union, which is part of the ...

KOBE--A stone wall shields the south side of a sprawling house in a quiet residential area here while several surveillance ...

TOKYO -- Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture Police have become the first in Japan to offer cash rewards to anyone who reports finding a hand grenade (or "pineapples" in yakuza slang) starting today, April 2.

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 were ...