The schism in the Yamaguchi-gumi is generating one violent incident after another, but authorities believe the worst is yet to come. Beware the Ides of March.

The Yamaguchi-gumi isn’t only Japan’s largest organized crime group; it’s also a well-known Japanese corporation, founded in 1915 by former fisherman Harukichi Yamaguchi.

Japan’s largest yakuza group, or crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, marks its 100th year in business in 2015, but the group’s future looks to be in doubt following two meetings this week in ...

The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest organized crime group with 39,000 members and their notorious former underboss Tadamasa Goto (at left, from a 2005 video of a Yamaguchi-gumi celebration) ...

TOKYO — Tadamasa Goto, former boss of the Yamaguchi-gumi Goto-gumi crime group, has agreed to pay ¥110 million, or $1.4 million, to settle the lawsuit filed by the family of Kazuoki Nozaki, who ...

The Yamaken-gumi provided the manpower while the Ikeda-gumi had the financial resources to prop up the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. Meanwhile, the Yamaguchi-gumi has problems of its own.

It's been a tough stretch for Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime syndicate. The yakuza group, which boasts about 35,000 registered members, had its number-two and number-three bosses ...

Of those arrested, 623 were members of the Yamaguchi-gumi and 353 were from Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. The gangs allegedly engage in a range of activities, including gambling, drugs, prostitution, loan ...

The recent fracturing of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the country's largest and most powerful crime syndicate, will considerably weaken the gang organization and all yakuza groups in general, two noted ...

Yakuza group Yamaguchi-gumi has about 23,400 affiliated members, which is about 43% of the yakuza-related population in the country, according to Japanese police.

Police say Japan's largest yakuza gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi, may be on the verge of splitting up. After rumors that the Yamaguchi-gumi, which is headquartered in Kobe, would be disbanding, information ...

Police in Tokuo have arrested a senior leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang on suspicion of murder after he allegedly fatally beat a man on Sunday. According to police, Masaharu Abe, 54, who lives ...