Yakuza 1 & 2 HD bundle hitting Wii U in Japan

Japan's underworld, namely the boryokudan (gangster organizations) better known as yakuza, have been targeted with crackdowns in recent years focused on cutting their funding and expanding their criminal liability. But a new type of thug appears to ...

囲碁・将棋 ログイン中 大サイズ 中サイズ 小サイズ > > > article メール THE ASAHI SHIMBUN Workers clean up a community in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 2. The workers are not related to this article. (Tamiyuki Kihara) ...

KITAKYUSHU, Japan —Visibly nervous, the chairman of a local construction company asks that we lower our voices at the lunch table, and that his name be withheld from publication. A few shady characters nearby are eavesdropping, he says. This ...

On April 15, two alleged terrorists in Boston killed three people, injured more than 170 others and terrified a nation — for about $100 it cost them to modify pressure cookers into bombs. We should be glad they didn't come to Japan, where they may ...

Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe will star in Tokyo Vice, a thriller featuring a real-life American journalist who explored Japan's underworld, according to a joint statement released by the movie's producers, John Lesher and Adam Kassan.

Jamie McCarthy/ Daniel Radcliffe showed some real courage standing up to Voldemort in the "Harry Potter" movies, but he's going to be playing a very different sort of tough guy in his next project. Daniel Radcliffe has been confirmed to star in ...

Two inmates were hanged in Tokyo on Friday in the second round of executions to be approved by the Liberal Democratic Party-led administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The inmates were Yoshihide Miyagi, 56, and Katsuji Hamasaki, 64, the Justice ...

KYOTO Kiyoshi Takayama, the No. 2 man in the top underworld syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi, was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for extorting ¥40 million from a construction business operator. Takayama, 65, who heads the Nagoya-based ...

SAITAMA -- A court here has dismissed prosecutors' demands that a yakuza-related murder case be tried without the participation of citizen judges out of concern for their safety, it has been learned. The Saitama District Court rejected the claim by ...