Japan’s crime rate rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2025, propelled by a record-breaking fraud wave and an increase in ...

Did you know Japan's crime syndicates were among the first responders after the 2011 tsunami? On March 11, 2011, a magnitude ...

Four teenage boys were arrested in the killing of a woman at her home. The police say they might have been directed by a new ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yakuza members display their tattoos during the second day of the Sanja Matsuri Festival in Tokyo's Asakusa district on May 14, ...

A Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) project team has outlined a bill to create a crime of damaging the national flag. It would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 1970, on a visit to Warsaw, Willie Brandt, chancellor of West Germany, came to the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. Brandt ...

A leader of Japan’s feared Yakuza crime syndicate has been charged in New York with trying to traffic nuclear material to help Iran make bombs. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, was caught trying to sell uranium ...

U.S. prosecutors have charged a Japanese mob leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear material from Southeast Asia to Iran. Prosecutors say Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa showed samples of nuclear ...

Teruko Nakazawa said she never wanted to be thanked or rewarded after decades of volunteering as an unpaid parole officer - Copyright AFP Jim WATSON Teruko Nakazawa ...

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 groups contend ...