Thai police have arrested the leader of a Japanese fraud gang and, in cooperation with the Japanese embassy, rescued two ...

“The age when a gang grew in size after winning a turf war is over," said journalist Atsushi Mizoguchi, who has long covered yakuza gangs. "Even though the Yamaguchi-gumi looks to be in a ...

The world's wealthiest mafia group, Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza, is undergoing a schism that could spark violent gang wars and have significantly affected businesses in and outside of Japan.

In December 2022, Fukuoka city filed for a court injunction to close down an office led by the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi branch of yakuza near elementary and junior high schools and forced it off the ...

The Yamaguchi-gumi was founded in 1915 in Hyogo prefecture, western Japan. It expanded significantly from the late 1950s to the early '70s, becoming the most powerful yakuza gang in Japan.

Experts raised doubts about its potential impact. Tomohiko Suzuki, a journalist who specializes in yakuza organizations, said Yamaguchi-gumi’s order “may be intended to furnish its senior ...

The yakuza have also downsized. Twenty years ago, Japanese police put the number of gangsters at 88,000, belonging to 3,200 gangs. Now the figure is below 80,000 and falling; the Yamaguchi-gumi ...

stars as Kumiko Yamaguchi. Kenichi Suzumura (Kuroko's Basketball, Fate/Grand Order) co-stars as Shin Sawada. Growing up in a Yakuza family has its perks, but as Yoshino heads to Tokyo at her ...

The four lodgers are Osaki, who has failed the entrance exam for ten years, former yakuza Yoneda and Yamaguchi, and her daughter Miyuki. On the seventh anniversary of her husband's death ...