Thai police have arrested a Japanese yakuza boss on the run for 15 years after pictures of his tattoos went viral on Facebook. Shigeharu Shirai is accused of murdering a gang rival in 2003.

It is believed to be the first time a senior member of Japan's mafia, the yakuza, has been sentenced ... assaults between 1998 and 2014, a former boss of a fishing co-operative was killed, and ...

If a National Boss Day meme has crossed your desk, that’s probably because it’s October 16, the date of a holiday not everyone loves. Yes, there is an official day to celebrate the bosses in ...

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Predictably, this leaves the yakuza boss in a foul mood and looking for someone to lash out at. That person winds up being poor Majima, who gets hauled in by Dojima’s goons. Once they’re done ...

Last year, a yakuza boss in western Japan sued his former mentor over the gang office. The old boss had filed papers to transfer ownership of the office to a company headed by one of his relatives.

There is probably only one hypothetical game that could get me to play anything that isn't horror or horror adjacent in the month of October, and that is a Yakuza fishing game. And as it turns out ...

A series of “kamikaze car” attacks and other incidents have raised fears in law enforcement that a yakuza war has reignited and is escalating. A major crackdown appeared to have quelled the ...

Emotionally-charged showdowns later in the season also lack the blistering capital-H 'Heat' of a truly great Yakuza boss fight. Most glaring, though, is something away from the show itself ...

You may have heard there are no karaoke scenes, for instance, which made some fans think the creators didn’t truly understand the appeal of the games formerly known as Yakuza. Unfortunately ...

Titled Like a Dragon: Yakuza, the gritty crime drama follows the series’ longtime protagonist Kazuma Kiryu across two timelines: one as a teenage orphan in 1995, and the other as a hardened ...

Like a Dragon is going global. The video game series, previously known as Yakuza in the West, has only grown in popularity since 2015's Yakuza 0, encompassing all manner of turn-based RPGs ...