All three groups—Yamaguchi-gumi, Kobe-Yamaguchi-gumi, and Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi—have complicated relationships. As one detective put it, “Members change sides as often as the sky changes in ...

The Yamaguchi-gumi Headquarters in Kobe, observing the practical precept of “don’t shit where you eat,” has a long history of getting along with the people living close by.

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) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Yamaguchi-Gumi dates back to a loose labor union of dockworkers in Kobe, the central Japanese coastal city, before World War II. It is considered by international authorities to be one of the ...

The Yamaguchi-gumi, one of the world’s largest and wealthiest crime gangs, has been embroiled in a bloody feud with splinter groups since 2015, when more than a dozen factions broke away to form ...

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 ...

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