Yakuza members show off their tattoos at a Shinto festival in Tokyo - Jiangang Wang The American journalist Jake Adelstein has spent decades in Japan exposing the secrets of organised crime gangs.

Members of Japan’s second-largest family within its organised crime syndicate have fallen foul of the law — but not in a way most people outside of Japan would expect. Four members of the ...

The Like a Dragon series – known for most of its life as the Yakuza series – has just had its latest release, the elegantly titled Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. But as you may ...

A district judge in Japan sentenced a top boss in the country's notorious organized crime group, referred to as the Yakuza, to death on Tuesday, a punishment believed to be the first of its kind for ...

A Japanese Yakuza boss and three others were busted in a globe-spanning scheme to buy missiles for Burmese rebels in exchange for massive amounts of drugs, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Japan ...

Japan's largest yakuza organised 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 ...

Microsoft announced that Yakuza: Like a Dragon is postponed indefinitely on the Xbox Series X in Japan. Microsoft originally planned to release the game alongside the console’s launch on November 10, ...

After many, many years of barely showing up in the Nintendo ecosystem, SEGA's Yakuza/Like A Dragon series is looking to make ...

Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...

Moritz Hess shares the incredible story of discovering the legendary Yakuza Vector, hidden and rotting away in Japan. Once a powerful symbol tied to a notorious past, this rare car had seemingly ...