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 were declared a “specially dangerous organized crime group” by the authorities early this year, when the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were due to be held, and the use of their ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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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