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 ...

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

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. But last week four men were arrested in Tokyo ...

When 53-year-old Tatsuya Shindo is in public, he almost always wears long sleeves. These sleeves hide the tattoos on his arms ...