Life as a yakuza mobster is getting so hard that some are resorting to shoplifting food. Two members of an organized crime gang were arrested for allegedly trying to steal grocery items worth ¥76,120 ($683) at a mall in Nagoya, police said on Wednesday. "They are ...

Last month, three masked robbers grabbed a suitcase stuffed with cash from a businessman who had just withdrawn the money from a bank in Fukuoka. The businessman is believed to have been planning to use the ¥380 million ($3.5 million) to buy gold. In December, ...

A Fuji Television Network Inc. reporter who allegedly purchased a luxury car on behalf of a man connected to the underworld is also suspected of lending millions of yen to the mobster, police officials said. The 32-year-old male employee, who was relieved of his reporter's ...

The number dropped as gang groups struggle to secure financing amid stronger police crackdowns and a growing civil movement to eliminate them, a report showed.

A 2013 assault on a nurse by a crime syndicate in Fukuoka Prefecture was ordered by its 70-year-old boss who was dissatisfied with the results of plastic surgery on his genitals, prosecutors said. Satoru Nomura, head of the Kudo-kai syndicate, launched a campaign of "organized ...

Two men were convicted Friday for intimidating lay judges involved in the trial of a senior member of a crime syndicate based in southwestern Japan but were allowed to walk free because their sentences were suspended. In the first such ruling since the nation's lay ...