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Japanese Yakuza mob boss pleads guilty to nuclear materials trafficking scheme

A man who runs a notorious Japanese organized crime syndicate pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to smuggle nuclear material to Iran and American weapons abandoned in Afghanistan to Burma, according to federal prosecutors. Japan's alleged Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, was found guilty Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan of conspiring with a network […]

Tokuryū, the shadowy criminal groups taking over from yakuza in Japan | Japan

Onlookers thought they were witnessing the filming of a TV drama or movie when three masked men burst into a luxury watch store in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district in broad daylight. There was also However, the robbery in May 2023 was real. The incident was carried out by a group of 16-year-old to 19-year-old youths […]