A member of Japan's yakuza crime group was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York court on Tuesday after being ...

Set to be sold off due to a court order, the house was the target of a drive-by shooting and an arson attack in recent years.

A member of the yakuza crime group was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York court after being convicted of trafficking nuclear material as well as drugs and weapons.

A member of Japan's yakuza crime group was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York court on Tuesday after being convicted of trafficking nuclear material as well as drugs and weapons.

A retired Japanese yakuza crime boss. Fingers are often cut off as punishments or to ritually apologise for mistakes Frank Zeller Retired yakuza Mako Nishimura shows her dragon and tiger tattoos and a ...

Tokyo (CNN) — 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 ...

On February 8, Tadamasa Goto, once a gangster within the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate, passed away at a hospital in the capital ...

A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few women yakuza. But after clawing her way out of the underworld, she now spends her days helping other retired ...

- Yakuza 'code of chivalry' - All of which disgusts the yakuza who -- though not shy about using violence, cutting off members' fingers as punishment -- claim to have limits. "I fought a lot and ...