A Japanese man who is believed to be a leader of call-centre scam gangs in Cambodia and Vietnam has been arrested for a ...

These sleeves hide the tattoos on his arms, which reveal his previous life with an organized criminal gang in Japan, the Yakuza. Shindo said he joined the yakuza as a young man because, “I was looking ...

A former yakuza member who retired in his 70s ... Hyogo Prefecture is home to two major organized gangs, the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime syndicate, and the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, which ...

Thai police have arrested the leader of a Japanese fraud gang and, in cooperation with the Japanese embassy, rescued two ...

There are thought to be nearly 100,000 Yakuza members in Japan. When they enlist in individual gangs they are taken to a secret location where they are trained in hand-to-hand combat and meditation.

Japanese society is a much safer society than most. The "institutionalisation" of crime in the form of about 80,000 registered gang members may play a role in that. The yakuza are suffering along ...