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 with falling ...

Think of Japan’s famed yakuza gangs and you might think of heavily tattooed men getting into bloody fights – the stuff of action films and video games. But last week four men were arrested in Tokyo ...

Show more Show less Some of the letters Japanese gangster Takanori Kuzuoka wrote to AFP from prison A retired Japanese yakuza crime boss. Fingers are often cut off as punishments or to ritually ...