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 ...

The Yakuza are members of a Japanese crime syndicate that were founded back in the 17th Century, during the mid-Edo period. They very much see themselves as a Ninkyo Dantai, a ‘Chivalrous ...