A member of a yakuza criminal syndicate is among nine suspects in custody for allegedly targeting elderly people in the sale of used apartments at unreasonably high prices ...

- Yakuza 'code of chivalry' - All of which disgusts the yakuza who -- though not shy about using violence, cutting off members' fingers as punishment -- claim to have limits. "I fought a lot and ...

On February 8, Tadamasa Goto, once a gangster within the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate, passed away at a hospital in the capital ...

There are a whole lot of reasons to not make the decision to lead a life of crime. Aside from the moral implications of profiting via harmful or otherwise unscrupulous means, there’s the legal ...

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 ...

The multi-billion-dollar yakuza crime network has long ruled over Japan's drug rings, gambling dens and sex trade The yakuza empire has started to crumble as members have dwindled and anti-mafia laws ...

The fugitive, Shigeharu Shirai, 72, was arrested by a SWAT team on Wednesday in the sleepy central Thai market town of Lopburi while he was out shopping. Japanese authorities have called for his ...

A retired Japanese yakuza crime boss. Fingers are often cut off as punishments or to ritually apologise for mistakes Frank Zeller Retired yakuza Mako Nishimura shows her dragon and tiger tattoos and a ...

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 ...

When Takanori Kuzuoka began climbing the criminal career ladder, he didn't fancy joining Japan's old-school yakuza, with their tattoos, rigid hierarchy and codes of honour. Instead he was drawn to the ...