Japan’s long-established crime syndicates like the Yamaguchi-gumi are declining in membership, only to be replaced by tokuryū ...

Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang, which has nearly 3,300 members as of 2024, is reportedly the largest and wealthiest organised crime groups in Japan ...

The lawsuit names four defendants including the group’s boss, 83-year-old Kenichi Shinoda, better known as Shinobu Tsukasa.

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 with falling ...

The Yamaguchi-gumi submitted to the police Monday a letter pledging that the designated yakuza group will end turf battles, it was learned the same day. According to ...

Japan’s largest organised crime syndicate has declared a unilateral end to a bloody internal feud that spanned a decade and left at least 90 dead, a move experts say underscores the steady ...

Kobe (Jiji Press) — The Yamaguchi-gumi submitted to the police Monday a letter pledging that the designated yakuza group will end turf battles, it was learned the same day. According to ...

Top executives of Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest crime syndicate in Japan, submitted a pledge to Hyogo prefectural police to end wars with its splinter groups on April 7. After members split off from ...

Japan’s largest yakuza organised crime body submitted a written pledge to authorities to end its wars with splinter groups, police told AFP today. Senior members of the Yamaguchi-gumi came to ...