A novel depicting yakuza gangster life by a Japanese author has won a prestigious British award for crime fiction.

With “The Night of Baba Yaga,” Akira Otani is the first Japanese writer to win the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Award ...

The Yakuza/Like a Dragon Phenomenon. I f you’ve ever played a Yakuza game—now officially called Like a Dragon in the West—you know it’s far more than just another gritty crime story. Sure ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a member of a criminal syndicate over the alleged blackmailing of a man in Shinjuku ...

A Japanese novelist on Thursday became her country's first to win a major British award for crime and mystery writing, ...

Going all the way back to Yakuza 0 feels like watching EastEnders from the very first episode. Kiryu Kazama's epic crime ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a member of a criminal syndicate over the alleged blackmail of an elderly man in the ...

Japan’s largest Yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend ...

Membership in yakuza gangs hit an all-time low of 18,800 by the end of last year, ... Yakuza numbers fall below 20,000 as new crime groups emerge By DAICHI ITAKURA/ Staff Writer. April ...

Japan’s largest Yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like ...