One of the best games in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series is a Switch 2 launch title.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police last week arrested an executive of the Takinogawa gang, a faction of Japan's second-most powerful organized crime syndicate — the Sumiyoshi-kai. His alleged crime?

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

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Japan’s long-established crime syndicates like the Yamaguchi-gumi are declining in membership, only to be replaced by tokuryū ...

These days it seems like we’re asked to make an account or subscribe for everything in daily life from Baskin Robbins to public television. This makes things hard for members of Japan’s many yakuza ...

“Yakuza” is a blanket term for Japan’s organized crime groups, which sit in a gray area in the country. Though they are not outlawed, the groups are regulated and monitored by authoritie ...

It has been 30 years since Japan started a sweeping clampdown on organized crime, which thinned the ranks of the yakuza across Japan and caused many gangsters just like this man to rethink their ways.

He discusses the initiation ceremonies and rules of membership as well as the ties the yakuza has to other crime groups, such as the triads and Russian organized crime. Since leaving the yakuza ...

The biggest yakuza crime syndicate in Japan has promised to put an end to its long-running conflict with a rival gang and ...

Discover the decadence and danger of 1988 Japan. Yakuza 0 makes its Nintendo Switch 2 debut with a brand-new Director’s Cut! The year is 1988. As Japan finds itself at the height of its bubble ...