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

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

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

"The Night of Baba Yaga," a novel about Japan's yakuza underworld, has won the UK's 2025 Dagger prize for crime fiction in ...

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

Batman Ninja director Junpei Mizusaki and writer Kazuki Nakashima reunited for the sequel, with Shinji Takagi joining as ...

LONDON—Akira Otani’s gangland thriller centered around two women is the first Japanese work to win the translation division ...

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