The yakuza is dominated by men and leaves only informal roles to women. Typically a woman might be a boss' wife who takes care of young affiliates and mediates between them and her husband.

Yakuza mobster 'cut off his own FINGER and then tried to claim treatment for it on Japan's healthcare service' By SHANNON MCGUIGAN. Published: 07:11 EDT, 12 October 2024 | Updated: 07:13 EDT, 12 ...

Some of the most valuable rings in Pirate Yakuza are the rings that fit Majima's index, middle, or ring fingers, since most of the best are only for his thumbs or little fingers, which of course ...

Many have struggled to reintegrate. Tattoos, missing fingers and long criminal records limit job opportunities and make it difficult to fit in. Japanese laws discouraging business with the yakuza ...

Think of Japan’s famed yakuza gangs and you might think of heavily tattooed men getting into bloody fights – the stuff of action films and video games. But last week four men were arrested in ...

Ryu Ga Gotoku revealed Project Century at The Game Awards last night and Yakuza / Like a Dragon fans are already deep in the theorizing phase to figure out what the heck it actually is.

The Yakuza series has long drawn inspiration from real-world history, ... Once he formed different ideals, he left to do his ...

Yakuza: Like a Dragon changes up the series’ history of real-time brawls to a turn-based JRPG, and with that a modern-day twist on job class systems based on real-life jobs.In order to change jo ...

Masahiro Nouchi, a 58-year-old member of the Kodo-kai yakuza group, was arrested on October 10 by police in Gifu prefecture, in central Japan, on suspicion of fraud, the Sankei newspaper reported.

A former yakuza gangster shows off his silicone-made finger for a chopped off finger. “Yubitsume” is a ritual in Japan’s underworld whereby a yakuza amputates a part of their little finger ...