KITA-KYUSHU--It sounds like a cliched movie plot, citizens living in fear of a yakuza gang and banding together with law enforcement to drive out gangsters and restore normalcy. But that's the ...

According to France's Le Monde, it's surprising to see a gang member, let alone a leader, arrested for petty theft in Japan, especially given the yakuza's historical association with more serious ...

This man said he grew up poor in eastern Japan and had dropped out of high school when he decided to join a gang. “I’ll make a name for myself in ‘gokudo’ (the yakuza world),” he said he ...