Did you know Japan's crime syndicates were among the first responders after the 2011 tsunami? On March 11, 2011, a magnitude ...

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

Top executives of Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest crime syndicate in Japan, submitted a pledge to Hyogo prefectural police to end ...

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 ...

Police are trying to help former gangsters assimilate into society and stay away from trouble by seeking cooperation from the ...

RGG's new historical drama is an origin story for the Tojo Clan's founder Makoto and his rise to power.

A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few women yakuza. But after clawing her way out of the underworld, she now spends her days helping other retired ...