Although it is forbidden for women to join yakuza organizations ... a barbed wire armband and a tribal design on her lower back. Her tattoos became part of her iconic image as a sex symbol ...

Throngs of Japanese men and women have taken to the streets in their underwear to show off their full-body, Yakuza-style tattoos at one ... which dates back to the Edo period.

For hundreds of years, tattoos in Japan have famously been associated with gangsters, the Yakuza. Despite the prevalence of tattoos in modern culture the stigma appears to still exist. That’s ...

The first trailer for Like a Dragon: Yakuza is here, and it's a slick, stylish trip through Japan's criminal underworld. The trailer is framed by that impressive, iconic back tattoo, and there's ...