Those are just some of the dark scenes a Belgian-based photographer captured in the two years he spent following the Shinseikai, a family within the yakuza — Japan’s notoriously inaccessible ...

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A well-earned reputation for unpredictability and violence keeps journalists away from the Japanese mafia, or yakuza ... a conference room dominated by portraits of chairman Yoshikazu Matsuo ...

Anti-gang laws and lower profits have made yakuza membership less appealing to younger Japanese. Tokyo Metropolitan Police last week arrested an executive of the Takinogawa gang, a faction of ...

Japan's largest yakuza organized crime body submitted a written pledge to authorities to end its wars with splinter groups, police told AFP on Thursday. The Yamaguchi-gumi has fought bloody wars with ...

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Japan's largest yakuza organised crime body has submitted a written pledge to authorities to end its wars with splinter groups, police said. The Yamaguchi-gumi has fought bloody wars with other ...