Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heavily tattooed yakuza members seen at the Sanja Matsuri Festival in Tokyo's Asakusa district on May 14, 2016. - Richard Atrero ...

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 with falling ...

When 53-year-old Tatsuya Shindo is in public, he almost always wears long sleeves. These sleeves hide the tattoos on his arms ...

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 Tokyo ...

Tokyo (CNN) — 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. Tokyo (CNN) — Think of Japan’s ...