These efforts also appear to have an unlikely ally in Japan’s vast organized crime network of the yakuza. Last month, the Eleventh Generation Himonya Family of the Inagawa-kai, posted the following ...

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group ...

(Editor's note: The following article originally appeared in conjunction with the Asia Society film series Gamblers, Gangsters, and Other Anti-Heroes: The Japanese Yakuza Movie, a retrospective of ...

Two new movies about gangsters mark a clear departure ... with the revised anti-organized crime law and organized crime exclusion ordinances. The crackdowns have not only hurt the finances of ...

Organized crime has held an exciting and dangerous place in movies, and that's especially true for movies surrounding Yakuza. Kuroha has had great luck for as long as she could remember ...

"The yakuza used to have their own code of rules called 'suji'," explains lawyer Morohashi Yoshitomo, who was once himself a member of a yakuza crime syndicate. "But they've started to turn to ...

KITA-KYUSHU--It sounds like a cliched movie plot, citizens living in fear ... In 2010, an ordinance to drive out organized crime syndicates was established in the prefecture.

The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest and most powerful yakuza group, is undergoing a major split on its 100th anniversary. Photo: Getty Images ...

"Crime City Shinjuku" - The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Organized Crime Control Division ... to the guerrilla division in order to eliminate the yakuza organization "Kokuryukai ...