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Phone fraud fleeces the unsuspecting: Cases up 45% from 2009

Phone fraud fleeces the unsuspecting: Cases up 45% from 2009

NPA reported that in 2010 the number of ore ore sagi cases increased by 45 percent from the year before to 4,418…

Contractors in Japan begin to shovel aside yakuza groups

Contractors in Japan begin to shovel aside yakuza groups

Industry might now be seeing criminal organizations as something other than a necessary evil…

God’s gangster: Former yakuza Tatsuya Shindo preaches the gospel

God’s gangster: Former yakuza Tatsuya Shindo preaches the gospel

Former gangster presides over an independent church inside a converted bar in Saitama…

Thomas the Yak Engine? Publisher alleged to host gangster front company

Thomas the Yak Engine? Publisher alleged to host gangster front company

Tokyo headquarters of Poplar Publishing providing office space to yakuza front company…

Entertainment world to follow sumo in baseball betting clampdown

Entertainment world to follow sumo in baseball betting clampdown

An idol and enka singer are rumored to be gamblers on baseball…

Hoods sucker sumo grapplers with sex business swindles

Hoods sucker sumo grapplers with sex business swindles

How could these guys be so dumb?…

The celestial journey of Shoko Tendo

The celestial journey of Shoko Tendo

Daughter of gangster releases her follow-up book to 'Yakuza Moon' …

Fukuoka yakuza groups tackle police pressure in all-out war

Fukuoka yakuza groups tackle police pressure in all-out war

Between 2004 and 2009, Fukuoka Prefecture had the most gun-related incidents…

Kabukicho drifts downward: Delinquents, dust-ups and drunken dames

Kabukicho drifts downward: Delinquents, dust-ups and drunken dames

The red-light quarter is increasingly attracting a younger crowd…

Forsaken old yakuza checks out, possibly for good

Forsaken old yakuza checks out, possibly for good

A mysterious man books a room at a love hotel and leaves behind a murky past…