KOBE—Hyogo prefectural police have arrested a tourist from Hawaii who somehow entered Japan through Kansai International ...

Japan’s largest yakuza gang, declared an end to a decade-long feud amid dwindling membership and tougher policing.

The Hyogo Prefectural Police said Wednesday that a U.S. tourist was arrested after he reported that he had inadvertently ...

The Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, which opened April 13, offers a variety of foods, including dishes featuring Kobe beef. A ...

Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang, which has nearly 3,300 members as of 2024, is reportedly the largest and wealthiest organised ...

The Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office has decided not to indict a 50-year-old woman who was arrested after stabbing a 72-year-old woman in the back at Sannomiya Station on the Kobe Municipal ...

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito doubled down on how he handled whistleblowing by a former senior official, which was deemed power harassment by a pa ...

The crime syndicate has been involved in turf battles with the rival Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, formed by more than a dozen gangs ...

Expedition lines such as Ponant and Scenic also visit; some of their itineraries link Japan with Taiwan or small Pacific islands. By Japanese standards Kobe is a mid-sized city, but has an ...

Japan’s largest Yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing ...