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 with falling ...

Members of Japan’s second-largest family within its organised crime syndicate have fallen foul of the law — but not in a way most people outside of Japan would expect. Four members of the ...

Japan's largest yakuza organised crime body submitted a written pledge to authorities to end its wars with splinter groups, police told AFP on Thursday. The Yamaguchi-gumi has fought bloody wars with ...

After the arrest of a yakuza boss for his alleged role in supplying workers to TEPCO’s Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant, we are learning the details of how Japan’s nuclear industry relied on organized ...