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 ...

Top executives of Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest crime syndicate in Japan, submitted a pledge to Hyogo prefectural police to end wars with its splinter groups on April 7. After members split off from ...

Japan’s long-established crime syndicates like the Yamaguchi-gumi are declining in membership, only to be replaced by tokuryū, fast, fluid groups that have been drawing headlines for their ...

The Yamaguchi-gumi has submitted to the police a letter pledging that the designated yakuza group will end turf battles, investigative sources said Monday. According to the sources, the document ...

In the complaint, the plaintiffs argue that Shinoda and other senior Yamaguchi-gumi figures bear organizational responsibility under the law against illegal activity by members of organized crime ...

Japan’s largest organised crime syndicate has declared a unilateral end to a bloody internal feud that spanned a decade and left at least 90 dead, a move experts say underscores the steady ...

Japan’s largest yakuza organised crime body submitted a written pledge to authorities to end its wars with splinter groups, police told AFP today. Senior members of the Yamaguchi-gumi came to ...

The Yamaguchi-gumi, one of the world’s largest and wealthiest ... These anonymous gangs are not affiliated with a yakuza family, operating individually or in ad hoc groups.

Kobe (Jiji Press) — The Yamaguchi-gumi submitted to the police Monday a letter pledging that the designated yakuza group will end turf battles, it was learned the same day. According to ...