A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few women yakuza. But after clawing her ...

Nishimura, skinny with dyed-blonde hair, finally put the syndicate behind her about five years ago. She now ekes out a living ...

If you ever want to see Japanese gangsters at work, look no further than Tokyo's Shinjuku area, which holds a Tori-No-Ichi festival each November. Members of the yakuza, Japan's storied mafia, show up ...

The ranks of the yakuza criminal networks in Japan are dwindling because of government intervention. What does life look like for defectors? One man opened a noodle shop, but had to win over nearby ...

Japan's largest "yakuza" crime syndicate has cancelled its annual Halloween trick-or-treat event with a grovelling apology to children hoping to score a fistful of candies. A recent high-profile split ...

The yakuza boss is quoted as saying that $20,000 was all it cost to rent the space, buy the materials — cheap, dried tapioca balls and ingredients for milk tea — and get the shop up and running, ...

One of the Yokohama Ijincho’s Big Three powers. It’s a mafia organization that houses its home base at a fortified compound called the Spider’s Nest. It’s wrapped in mystery, and there’s nobody who ...

Sega’s Yakuza 6: The Song of Life on the PlayStation 4 is the final time we’ll be able to run around as lovable gangster Kazuma Kiryu. It has all the hallmarks of previous titles: a clever and ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Mafia Wars: Yakuza The award-winning Mafia Wars franchise explodes in Japan with an all-out war to control Tokyo! Outcast from society, the Yakuza must ...

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