It’s not often that kids get to shake down gangsters for candy—but up until this Halloween, the neighborhood children in Kobe, Japan, got to terrorize the local yakuza (Japanese mafia) with a raucous ...

Reporting from TokyoReporting from Tokyo — Japan’s largest yakuza group, or crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, marks its 100th year in business in 2015, but the group’s future looks to be in doubt ...

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 ...

Imagine facing a serious CSR issue. Your membership numbers are dwindling as your activities become less and less appealing to that ever-important youth market. You have been accused of not sharing ...

It's been a tough stretch for Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime syndicate. The yakuza group, which boasts about 35,000 registered members, had its number-two and number-three bosses ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Tokyo province (AFP) – A woman is suing the head of Japan's biggest yakuza organised crime group, seeking a refund of protection money paid to gangsters threatening to torch her bar, reports ...

Reporting from Tokyo — Japan’s largest yakuza group, or crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, marks its 100th year in business in 2015, but the group’s future looks to be in doubt following two ...