US prosecutors have charged a 60-year-old alleged member of the Japanese Yakuza mafia with conspiring ... The 60-year-old Japanese mafia boss reportedly also sent pictures “depicting rocky ...

followed by Ebisawa responding, “Yes.” Then there’s audio of the Yakuza boss discussing nuclear weapons-grade material sales with an undercover agent he believed was a general in the Iranian ...

The alleged boss of the Japanese Yakuza has pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic uranium and weapons-grade plutonium to an informant posing as an Iranian general. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60 ...

The Yakuza boss sent pics of a rocky substance next to a Geiger counter along with pictures of what he claimed were lab reports to the fake general. “Ebisawa then offered to supply the General w ...

A leader of Japan's Yakuza crime syndicate who tried to sell Iran weapons-grade plutonium has pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking narcotics, weapons and nuclear material.

An acquaintance of Nomura once said people might assume that the yakuza boss was an “elite salaryman,” if they did not know about his background. Nomura was born in Kokura city, today’s ...

A former yakuza boss was found to have transferred assets that included two homes to a relative after a high court in a civil case ordered him to pay compensation to a swindling victim.

Court papers said Ebisawa — who U.S. prosecutors say is a leader of Japan's notorious Yakuza mafia — told the DEA's confidential source in 2020 that he had access to a large quantity of ...

A man who federal prosecutors say runs a notorious Japanese organized crime syndicate pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran and U.S. weapons abandoned in ...

A Japanese crime boss has pleaded guilty to conspiring to ... Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, a member of the yakuza, entered a guilty plea to six counts in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday, the ...