Immigration officers looked at Jerce Reyes Barrios and saw tattoos with a crown and the word “Dios” — both of which are ...

There are thought to be nearly 100,000 Yakuza members in Japan. When they enlist in individual gangs they are taken to a secret location where they are trained in hand-to-hand combat and meditation.

But the ex-yakuza had no document showing he left a gang because the gang itself had disbanded. The man wrote a document for police saying he wanted to wash his hands of a life of crime now that ...

She tried to soothe her wounds with a wet hand towel ... close tabs on (the gang) under all our watchful eyes will likely serve as a deterrent,” she said. “Yakuza said they are the ones ...

It expanded significantly from the late 1950s to the early '70s, becoming the most powerful yakuza gang in Japan. The year 2005 proved to be a pivotal one for the group, as two new leaders took ...

We, along with Majima, are outsiders in exactly how he's been feeling about the tumultuous state of the yakuza crime families, and as we re-examine their dissolution, and how former gang members ...

As far as hand-to-hand combat goes ... between getting clobbered and overcoming a gang of criminals. I gravitated toward the knife-wielding yakuza style for one-on-one fights and swapped to ...