Takeshi Ebisawa is done posing with rocket launchers, he's facing a lifetime in federal custody after pleading guilty to multiple guns, weapons, and nuke charges.

An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash, according to the US Department of Justice.

A leader of Japan's Yakuza crime syndicate who tried to sell Iran weapons-grade plutonium has pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking narcotics, weapons and nuclear material.

A Japanese Yakuza leader pleaded guilty in New York federal court to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries, prosecutors said. The Yakuza member Takeshi Ebisawa also pleaded guilty to international narcotics trafficking and weapons charges,

A Japanese Yakuza leader has pleaded guilty to attempting to traffic weapons-grade plutonium for Iran’s nuclear weapons programme.

A member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld pleaded guilty to handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal, US authorities said Wednesday.

Takeshi Ebisawa has pleaded guilty in New York to conspiring with a network of associates to "brazenly" traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar, the US justice department says.

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, a Yakuza leader, was said to have "brazenly trafficked nuclear material, including weapons-grade plutonium".