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CROOKED CLEANUP: Yakuza taking slice of lucrative...
Workers clean up a community in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 2. The workers are not related to this article. (Tamiyuki Kihara)
Criminal organizations are engaging in fraudulent practices amid a labor shortage and lax background checks by employers to pocket some of the trillions of yen from publicly...
Gangster illegally hired workers for...
Workers bag fallen leaves and branches in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Criminal organizations are cashing in on the disaster that shook Japan nearly two years ago by sinking their claws into all aspects of recovery operations to skim off handsome...
Police detain 150 in Macau casino raids amid fears...
Casino workers stand at gaming tables inside the Sands' newest integrated resort, Sands Cotai Central, in Macau on April 11. (AP Photo)
HONG KONG -- Police detained more than 150 people in weekend raids on casinos and hotels in Macau after a recent spate of killings raised fears of a new gang war in the world's ...
NPA: Yakuza membership number slides to 70,300
Police officers enter Yamaguchi-gumi headquarters in Kobe’s Nada Ward on Oct. 21, 2011. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japan was home to 70,300 gangsters at the end of 2011, the smallest figure since the Organized Crime Group Countermeasures Law took effect in 1992, the National Police Agency...
FOOTBALL / Salvadorian group fights gangs with...
The Caimanes of the Salvadorian Association of American Intramural Football. Caimane is Spanish for caiman, a small crocodile found extensively throughout South and Central America. (Provided by SAAIF)
Steve Agreda grew up in Los Angeles, a city rife with menacing territorial street gangs. As a young man, however, he was more interested in gang tackling than gang turf wars.
Yakuza attacks on businesses more than double
Violent attacks against businesses in Japan have more than doubled compared to last year, indicating the involvement of gangs as crime syndicates look for new ways to gets...
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