Tokyo police have arrested a member of a yakuza criminal syndicate and two accomplices for allegedly confining, assaulting and robbing a man over a six-day period last year ...

The result is shrinking yakuza groups that nowadays largely make headlines for disbanding, pursuing new law-abiding lives, or promising to behave. In April, Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate, the ...

In April, Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction after police stepped up surveillance and restricted their activities.

The Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest faction of Japan’s Yakuza, operates like a corporation, with a public face. They’re involved in fraud, extortion, cybercrime, and even insider trading.

In February 2025, Thai authorities arrested Yamaguchi, a Japanese national and leader of the infamous Yamaguchi-gumi.

Japan's largest yakuza organized crime body submitted a written pledge to authorities to end its wars with splinter groups, police told AFP on Thursday. The Yamaguchi-gumi has fought bloody wars with ...

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 ...