If you’ve ever played a Yakuza game—now officially called Like a Dragon in the West—you know it’s far more than just another gritty crime story. Sure, there are epic brawls in neon-lit back alleys and ...

"Making money by deceiving people is not what yakuza are supposed to do," the senior yakuza told AFP. Whatever challenges they face, he is confident the yakuza will survive, providing protection from ...

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 ...

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. CNN — Tokyo (CNN) — Think of Japan ...

Sega invited us to try running an orphanage and keeping the world of organized crime at bay in an early play of RGG Studio's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Show more Show less Some of the letters Japanese gangster Takanori Kuzuoka wrote to AFP from prison A retired Japanese yakuza crime boss. Fingers are often cut off as punishments or to ritually ...