The graying of the Japanese population is striking all sectors of society, and even organized crime isn't immune. As of the end of 2019, 51.2 percent of the nation's 14,400 or so yakuza members ...

Tougher laws and prefectural rules have made life increasingly difficult for yakuza gangs in Japan ... with the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest organized crime syndicate. After he left his ...

Writer Peter Lyon explores the automotive likes and dislikes present in the dark underground that is the Yakuza - Japan's version of a particularly ruthless mob. Lyon explores the automotive likes ...

Why are the yakuza tolerated? For decades, many Japanese clung to a romantic myth that the crime syndicates with their intricate hierarchies, pseudo-familial relationships and codes of honour ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The Kumamoto Prefecture Violence Prevention Movement Promotion Center ...

This myth was partly self-serving, since some of the producers of the classic yakuza film were not always a million miles removed from organized crime themselves. Like many American gangsters, ...

Yakuza games have recently seen a rise in popularity thanks to their unique identity and tight gameplay elements.

A leader of the Japanese organized crime syndicate yakuza pleaded guilty in New York federal court to trafficking nuclear materials, prosecutors said. Takeshi Ebisawa also pleaded guilty to ...

A man who federal prosecutors say runs a notorious Japanese organized crime syndicate pleaded guilty ... the 60-year-old alleged leader of the Japanese yakuza, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal ...