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.
Types of yakuza and their businesses
atariya (当たり屋・あたりや）professional car crash dummy con man who specializes in throwing himself in front of cars and collecting damages from either the driver or the driver’s insurance company. A dangerous…
Edible soap? Yakuza Arrested For Claiming Sex-Shop Payment Was For Dining
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Organized Crime Control Division General Affair Division (警視庁組織犯罪対策総務課） arrested three members of the Inagawa-kai, Japan’s third largest organized crime group, on April 27th for computer…
Yakuza Terminology: Updated With Weasels and Monsters
If you're interested in the Japanese underworld and anti-social forces, have a read. Brush up on the Japanese you shouldn't know. By the way, if someone knows how to play…
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.
Independent Commission on Nuclear Accident: Earthquake, TEPCO negligence, Myth of Safety Caused Meltdown
According to the investigation of this panel commission, perhaps the greatest achievements of Mister Kan could be that he “was able to prevent TEPCO to retreat entirely from the Daiichi…
The Last Yakuza: A Life In The Japanese Underworld coming in 2015
Some in-house book news: Atlantic Wire contributor Jake Adelstein has a deal for his book The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld. Adelstein, an expert on organized crime…
Lingerie designer by day, yakuza by night: Shizukanaru Don (The Quiet Don)
By Gilles Poitras Screenshots courtesy of Michelle A. Hoyle Nitta Tatsuo’s Shizukanaru Don (静かなるドン), translated into English as The Quiet Don, began publication in November 1988 in the men’s manga…
Tokyo Police Arrest Ex-Ceo/Yakuza associates for financial fraud: UPDATE
Tokyo Stock Exchange listed companies in collusion with yakuza? Shocking.
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."