The yakuza is dominated by men and leaves only informal roles to women. Typically a woman might be a boss' wife who takes care of young affiliates and mediates between them and her husband.

The yakuza is dominated by men and leaves only informal roles to women. Typically a woman involved with the yakuza might be an anesan, a boss’ wife who takes care of young affiliates and mediates ...

Kenichi Shinoda, the boss of Japan's largest "yakuza" gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi, gets into a car in Kobe, on April 9, 2011. A woman is suing Shinoda, seeking a refund of protection money paid to ...

A woman is suing the head of Japan’s biggest yakuza organized crime group over protection money she paid to gangsters. She claims the don-equivalent of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Kenichi Shinoda, be… ...

A WOMAN is suing the head of Japan's biggest yakuza organised crime group, seeking a refund of protection money paid to gangsters threatening to torch her bar.

A WOMAN is suing the head of Japan's biggest yakuza organised crime group, seeking a refund of protection money paid to gangsters threatening to torch her bar.

The boss is a shell, dying of cancer, and the yakuza are dying off, too. “The laws around cell phone contracts make buying a phone a pain for yakuza,” an underling tells Kenji. The clubs they ...

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The woman says she paid 30,000-100,000 yen per month between 1998 and 2010 to a member of Inabaji Ikka, a local yakuza group connected to the Yamaguchi-gumi, Kyodo News said.