Japanese police arrested a Korean suspect accused of dismembering the bodies of a Japanese couple, according to Japanese ...

A 20-year-old suspect arrested on May 1 in connection with the discovery of a couple's burned corpses in eastern Japan's ...

Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice exposed Japan’s yakuza. Now he’s out of police protection and releasing a new book.

More than 3,000 members of Japan's largest Yakuza gang recently ... of the two years he spent embedded with a Yakuza crime family in Tokyo. It quickly became a subtle story. The first time I ...

In movies and video games, there’s often a romanticized, or at least dramatic, view of where yakuza get their money from.

Japan Airlines was unable to find a replacement pilot after a captain scheduled to fly from Dallas to Tokyo on April 23 had a night of raucous drinking with his flight crew.

But with Japan under the control of the Americans ... conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity." The Tokyo trials began on May 3, 1946, and lasted two and a half years.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the cases as serial thefts and is calling on residents to bolster their crime prevention efforts. According to sources, some 45 sports ...

Fresh arrest warrants were served on Sept. 12 in connection with a robbery-murder in western Tokyo in January that was traced to a Japanese crime ring operating in the Philippines, police said ...

Numerous atrocities accompanied Japan’s assaults on its Asian neighbors in World War II.

Why David Shin’s ‘House of the Owl’ series is a test run for Hollywood-style multi-season shows that are made in Japan.

Discovery’s Max and its hit TV series Tokyo Vice. The neo-noir crime drama was then two-thirds of the way through production of its second season on location in Japan, and one of its most ...