When Takanori Kuzuoka began climbing the criminal career ladder, he didn't fancy joining Japan's old-school yakuza, with ...

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 honor. Instead he was drawn to the ...

"There was even a case where being part of the project helped someone gain approval for marriage from their partner’s parents ...

Japan`s yakuza face a new threat: tokuryu. Learn how these tech-savvy criminals use online scams & fleeting alliances to ...

Yakuza members show off their tattoos at a Shinto festival in Tokyo - Jiangang Wang The American journalist Jake Adelstein has spent decades in Japan exposing the secrets of organised crime gangs.

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

With Yakuza Kiwami 3 coming soon, we’re ranking ten of the best games from the series that you can play right now.

A district judge in Japan sentenced a top boss in the country's notorious organized crime group, referred to as the Yakuza, to death on Tuesday, a punishment believed to be the first of its kind for ...

The series is a live-action adaptation with an original story based on SEGA’s global hit game franchise, Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Directed by the critically acclaimed Masaharu Take, the series will ...

ALBAWABA - A 25-year-old Japanese woman has gone viral after "marrying" Kazuma Kiryu, the protagonist from the hit Sega video ...

Oni Dino is a staff writer, Japanese-English translator, localization editor, and podcaster. He has several video game credits and regularly translates columns from Masahiro Sakurai and Shigeru ...

Yakuza 0 Director's Cut is a re-release/update of the classic 2017 (2015 in Japan) game, and offers players quite a few changes.