Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heavily tattooed yakuza members seen at the Sanja Matsuri Festival in Tokyo's Asakusa district on May 14, 2016. - Richard Atrero ...

Membership in yakuza gangs hit an all-time low of 18,800 by the end of last year, marking 20 consecutive years of decrease, ...

Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her ...

TOKYO -- Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture Police have become the first in Japan to offer cash rewards to anyone who reports finding a hand grenade (or "pineapples" in yakuza slang) starting today, April 2.

Tokyo (CNN) — Think of Japan’s famed yakuza gangs and you might think of heavily tattooed men getting into bloody fights – the stuff of action films and video games. But last week four men were ...