Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A court in Japan issued a historic ruling by sentencing a Yakuza boss to death on Aug. 24 for his alleged involvement in four ...

A district judge in Japan sentenced a top boss in the country's notorious organized crime group, referred to as the Yakuza, to death on Tuesday, a punishment believed to be the first of its kind for ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced the unsealing of an indictment charging a Japanese national ...

The DOJ alleges that a high-ranking member of the Yakuza, Takeshi Ebisawa, was the central figure in a plot to funnel American weapons to ethnic militias in Myanmar in exchange for heroin and meth.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa was arrested by U.S. officials Thursday on charges of plotting to sell drugs and for ...

"The Yakuza bosses are elderly and their influence has plummeted," says Jake Adelstein, the investigative journalist who inspired the series 'Tokyo Vice.' But the void has already been filled by a ...