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 ...

Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang, which has nearly 3,300 members as of 2024, is reportedly the largest and wealthiest organised crime groups in Japan ...

Numbers in parentheses indicate the year-on-year change. In August 2015, the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi splintered from the Yamaguchi-gumi, and since 2019, a turf war between the two gangs has seen a ...

After members split off from the Yamaguchi-gumi and formed Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi in 2015, the two groups and other splinter groups have engaged in violent conflicts in various locations. This time ...

It is unclear whether the rival splinter group, Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, has responded to the ceasefire pledge. Police said they would be “closely monitoring the movements of both groups” as the ...

Tokyo (CNN) — 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 ...