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

In Ninja Batman vs Yakuza League, the music, entirely in Japanese, acts as a ritual chant echoing over each clash and leap.

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

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

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

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

SEGA's Ryu ga Gotoku/Yakuza/Like A Dragon (pick your favorite name) series is coming up on its 20th anniversary this year, ...

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

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

A Tokyo court rejected on Monday a damages claim by the husband of Seiko Noda, a ruling party lawmaker who aspired to be ...

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

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