The lawsuit names four defendants including the group’s boss, 83-year-old Kenichi Shinoda, better known as Shinobu Tsukasa.

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 ...

a Japanese national and leader of the infamous Yamaguchi-gumi. Yamaguchi had been running call center scam operations based in Cambodia and Myawaddy, Myanmar, and was hiding in a luxury apartment ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three senior members of the Yamaguchi-gumi visited the Hyogo Prefectural police headquarters on Monday and delivered a letter to officers pledging to “end all internal fighting” and to “neve ...

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 ...

The combined number of members and quasi-members of the Yamaguchi-gumi stood at some 6,900 at the end of 2024, down from around 14,100 at the end of 2015, while the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi’s members ...