The game also features both turn-based and real-time combat, with these battle systems being pushed to their very limit in fights against ridiculously powerful bosses.

If you’ve played Yakuza games before, then you’ll immediately recognize Saejima. He’s one of the earlier bosses here, and there’s no real bad blood between you and him.

These days the price of a standard civilian hit-job can run as high as $2 million. That’s not the price to get the job done―that’s the price if one of your underlings gets caught.

"No yakuza is going to run around getting into fistfights like that," Kuroishi ... "He's supposed to be a former boss of the Inagawakai," Midoriyama ... Real yakuza evaluate Yakuza 3. jc fletcher.

Monthly comic books glorify the real-life adventures of Yakuza bosses and their shady dealings in real estate, loan sharking and prostitution. Until recently, ...

In 2012, Goto Tadamasa, a former crime boss, paid $1.4 million to the family of a real estate agent that his men had killed. He was never convicted in a criminal court. Yamaguchi-gumi members ...

The number of yakuza, Japan’s organized crime group members, hit its lowest record since the country’s first anti-organized crime laws passed in 1992, the National Police Agency announced this ...

Some stories are best told from the end. This story ends with the suicide of Kenzo Arai, A.K.A. “Ken-chan,” aged 56, a yakuza boss. Yakuza are Japan’s organized crime families. They make ...