But Shimada is only one of many celebrities with yakuza ties. In the last few weeks, extensive evidence has emerged that Japanese show business is saturated with the yakuza’s influence.

Tattoos, rituals, and a brutal code—this isn’t just organized crime. The Yakuza blend tradition and violence in a way no other syndicate does.

Tokyo Vice, which premiered on HBO Max on April 7, is a series adaptation of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, the 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein, played by Ansel Elgort ...

Most of them were teenagers when they joined the Japanese mafia, known as the yakuza. Shindo was 17. “I was a child. I didn’t think too deeply,” he says. “And I admired the yakuza for what ...

Incredible performance means Yakuza 0 has never looked better than on Switch 2, but baffling additions detract from this ...

US prosecutors have charged a 60-year-old alleged member of the Japanese Yakuza mafia with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials. Takeshi Ebisawa was charged with allegedly attempting to sell ...

According to Hirosue Noboru, one of the few experts on organised crime in Japan, some yakuza groups subsequently issued a warning to their members not to get involved with the Chinese mafia ...

At its core, the series is a 3D brawler focusing on the Japanese mafia, aka the Yakuza, and how one man, Kazuma Kiryu, gets himself wrapped up in the most complex web of criminal activities ...