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 ...

A man in his 40s died after a fight between several men broke out on a street in Fukuoka on Saturday morning. A witness called police at around 12:50 a.m. and said a group of men were arguing on a ...

Facing a shrinking pot of spoils, five mafia syndicates are waging an unusually vicious gang war in the coastal prefecture of Fukuoka.

Will Japan fight? Geography puts Japan on the front line: its westernmost island sits 111km from Taiwan. Conflict is probably less likely if China believes Japan would join the fray.

The only woman to join Japan's notorious yakuza: How a woman who 'never lost a fight to a man' caught the eye of gang boss in 'bloodbath' brawl and began life of crime that saw her slice off ...

Japan's yakuza gang wars heating upKenichi Shinoda, the boss of Japan’s largest ‘yakuza’ gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi, walks at Tokyo’s Shinagawa station to return to his his home in Kobe ...