The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime syndicate, has apparently let bygones be bygones and allowed a rival gang that had splintered from it six years ago back into the fold. According to ...

According to a retired chief of the FBI’s Asian criminal enterprise unit, the bureau had hoped to gain substantial ...

The main cause of the current trouble within the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi is the Yamaken-gumi, to which Kunio Inoue, 72, boss of Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, once belonged, according to investigative sources.

The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi is considered to be Japan's largest yakuza (violent group) organization and one of the largest criminal organizations in the world. Even as of 2022, there are over 3,800 ...

The murder in the city of Amagasaki is just one of more than 100 violent incidents in the last four years that have been linked to a feud between the Yamaguchi-gumi and its splinter gangs.

Bunta Sugawara (Big Boss Hachiro)Tsunehiko Watase Mayumi Nagisa Tatsuo Umemiya Masahiko Tsugawa Shinobu Chihara Tetsurô Tanba Hiroki Matsukata Tatsuo Endô Bin Amatsu Kôsaku Yamashita A boy born ...

Now the figure is below 80,000 and falling; the Yamaguchi-gumi gang has laid off 2,000 members a year since 2008. Illegal gambling, prostitution, and racketeering remain their main concerns.

On one end of the spectrum there are highly centralised and structured organisations, the best example being Japan’s Yamaguchi-gumi, known commonly as the Yakuza. On the other, there are decentralised ...

Ai Yamaguchi (Japanese, b.1977) is an artist who utilizes a unique combination of delicately drawn lines and celluloid, picture-like expression to vividly portray the lives of young female prostitutes ...

At the Yokohama-based Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi, the drug business is legal according to the teachings of the leader, Engetsu. Mouri of the Ryuyasu group assassinates the leader of the Yamagami group ...

Controversial Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, has disclosed that he had a productive meeting with security agencies on how to curtain bandits and their activities in the North. This comes as the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the state’s economy and left Waikiki a virtual ghost town. But some say this lull could be used as an opportunity to reimagine Waikiki as a visitor destination.