The Department of Justice (DOJ) referred Ebisawa as a Yakuza leader. They described the Yakuza as a 300-year-old Japanese crime syndicate involved in gambling, smuggling, and loan-sharking ...

A leader of the Japanese organized crime syndicate yakuza pleaded guilty in New York federal court to trafficking nuclear materials, prosecutors said. Takeshi Ebisawa also pleaded guilty to ...

FUKUOKA—The Fukuoka High Court commuted a death sentence for a yakuza gang leader to life imprisonment after acquitting him of a murder charge but holding him guilty in three attempted murders ...

Tomohiko Suzuki, a journalist who specializes in yakuza organizations ... including the shooting and killing of a fishery cooperative leader, which were carried out by lower-ranking members.

The yakuza began as con artists and illegal bookmakers ... They are known to cut off their own fingers as an 'apology' for offending their leaders and kumichos themselves have done the same ...

Also known as the Wolves of the City series, Tatsuo Umemiya starred as the leader of a motorcycle youth gang called the Capones in seventeen between 1968 and 1974.

Unable to resist the expectations around him, he is burdened with the traditions and prestige of the gang, reluctantly walking the path of the yakuza as the young acting leader of the Hakurou Family.