Blast from the past: Nevada gaming board gets portion of yakuza assets (November 2009)
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement have announced that they will share more than $60,000 in assets seized from yakuza Susumu Kajiyama with the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
The $1,000 Pineapple. Japanese Police Offer Rewards For Hand Grenades
The Fukuoka Prefecture Police have become the first in Japan to offer cash rewards to anyone who reports finding a hand grenade, called "pineapples" in yakuza slang.
Japan's Financial Regulators Stop Operations of AIJ Investment Advisors; Firm May Have Ties To Anti-Social Forces
AIJ Investment Advisors appears to be unable to account for over a billion dollars worth of pension funds they were handling. The firm may have ties to "anti-social forces."
The Japanese Police Department Diet: 20 Yakuza A Month
According to this month’s Jitsuwajidai, a yakuza fanzine, and other sources, late last year the National Police Agency sent out a notice to every Prefectural Police Headquarters, notifying them that they…
TEPCO Ties To The Yakuza: Gone? Police Sources Still Skeptical.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the monolithic corporation that controls all electric power in Greater Tokyo, and was responsible for a triple meltdown at their nuclear power plant in Fukushima…
"No one is safe from the new yakuza." ABC's stellar documentary.
Child pornography, along with prostitution and drugs, allows the Yakuza - Japans 80 000 strong mafia - to rake in 50 billion dollars a year.
October 1st: Nationwide in Japan Anti-Yakuza Laws Go Into Effect: "Do Tell, We Won't Ask."
The new laws criminalize profit-sharing with the yakuza or paying them off. Both the yakuza and those who use them face severe punishment for illegal activity. The autumn of the…
The New Sex-Ed: Yakuza Awareness Classes
“Unprotected contact with organized crime can be bad for your life. Just say no.”
Police raid Daikanyama club in Kanto Rengo-kai crackdown
Recreational drugs becoming a risky business in clubs
Tokyo Court Upholds Ban on Use of Yamaguchi-gumi Kodo-kai front company office
The Tokyo District Court on the 21st of July (2011) rejected the legal pleas of the head of the Yamaguchi-gumi Kodokai （山口組弘道会）Komatsu-gumi and upheld a preliminary injunction against him which…