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Yakuza members arrested for building a road on mountain they don’t own

• Master Blaster
  Jul 22, 2026
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Darn gangsters! Building infrastructure without permission.

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• Japan
• (Construction • Hiroshima • Kyosei-kai • Organized crime • roads • yakuza)

Suspected yakuza member arrested for having frequent flyer mile account

• Casey Baseel
  May 20, 2026

Not quite as glamourous as a secret bank account.

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• Japan
• (Air travel • airlines • COK • crazy • crime • frequent flyer miles • Organized crime • society • travel • weird • yakuza)

Sega opening 65th anniversary store in downtotn Tokyo with deep-cut game merch

• Casey Baseel
  May 2, 2026

60-ish birthday celebration is coming to Shibuya.

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• Japan
• (Like a Dragon • Sega • Shibuya • Sonic • Sonic the Hedgehog • video games • yakuza)

Foreign man arrested for walking on Shinkansen tracks, claims he was on the run from yakuza

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 8, 2026

If you’re going to do something like this, you need a very good, or at least a very crazy, reason for doing it.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • crazy • crime • shinkansen • trains • weird • yakuza)

It’s illegal for yakuza to go to professional baseball games in Japan, Tokyo arrests remind us

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 14, 2026

Life of crime or live baseball fan? You can only choose one.

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• Japan
• (baseball • COK • crazy • crime • sports • Tokyo Dome • weird • yakuza)

Japanese thug wear from Birth Japan perfect for those breaking bad next year

• Master Blaster
  Dec 30, 2025

Becoming a Japanese street tough might just be the change of pace you need.

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• Japan
• (Birth Japan • clothing • crime • diamond • fashion • Lucky Bags • Masanuki Sunakoma • shopping • yakuza • Yankee)

Yakuza video game even in Japan allows fans to both marry and divorce their 2-D crushes

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2025

Like a Dragon/Yakuza exhibition offers wedding ceremonies with charavter of your choice, provides paperwork to tie the knot and sever it too.

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• Japan
• (crazy • divorce • funny • Like a Dragon • Sega • video games • Wedding • weird • yakuza)

Tokyo Game Show — Cosplay dreams broken, Mr. Sato heads to the Like a Dragon/Yakuza booth anyway

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 27, 2025

Awesome recreation of the Kamurocho Gate eases his Majima pain.

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• Japan
• (COK • cosplay • cosplayers • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Sega • SNJO • Tokyo Game Show • Tokyo Game Show 2025 • video games • yakuza)

Sega’s Like a Dragon yakuza teaches “useless” English, let’s use it to learn some useful Japanese

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 24, 2025

Kiryu seems like the kind of guy who should know that effort is never meaningless, and this time is no exception.

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• Japan
• (crazy • funny • Japanese language • Kazuma Kiryu • learning japanese • Like a Dragon • linguistics • Sega • SNO • video games • weird • yakuza)

Rent-a-scary person company appears in Japan, seems an awful lot like a straight-up gang

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 2, 2025

If you’re paying people to intimidate others into doing what you want them to do, doesn’t that make you a mobster?

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • gangs • rent a person • rental person • society • weird • yakuza)

Four yakuza members arrested for having office too close to library

• Master Blaster
  May 18, 2025

This time, the yakuza have gone too far… in the direction of a library.

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• Japan
• (Boryokudan Countermeasures Law • Botaiho • crime • designated violence groups • law • Organized crime • Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinances • shitei boryokudan • weird • yakuza)

More yakuza members caught stealing huge haul of sea cucumbers from the ocean

• Master Blaster
  May 16, 2025

Latest bust in the long-running sea cucumber racket of organized crime.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • Hokkaido • Otaru • poaching • sea cucumbers • weird • yakuza)

A visit to the real-world Like a Dragon/Yakuza cabaret in Osaka【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 23, 2025

Mr. Sato visits the clear inspiration for Goro Majima’s Cabaret Grand.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • cabaret • COK • hostess bars • hostess clubs • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Osaka • SNJO • video games • yakuza)

Yakuza member arrested for renting a car once in 2022

• Master Blaster
  Apr 21, 2025

Crime does pay but gets arrested for it.

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• Japan
• (business • car rental • contracts • crime • fraud • Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinances • police • Saitama • yakuza)

Mr. Sato’s mad Majima cosplay and other outfits from Mafia Day at SoraNews24HQ【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Apr 2, 2025

Things go predictably off the rails as our boss tells us to dress up for Mafia Day.

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• Japan
• (COK • cosplay • crazy • funny • Goro Majima • Like a Dragon • mafia • Majima • SNJO • weird • yakuza)

Yakuza family speaks out against rise in organized crime

• Master Blaster
  Nov 28, 2024

Not their kind of organized crime, the bad kind.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • fraud • Organized crime • social media • society • weird • yakuza • yami baito • yamibaito)

Yakuza vending machines coming to real-world Tokyo neighborhood that inspired Like a Dragon games

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 21, 2024

Do you love Kamurocho?

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• Japan
• (Kabukcho • Like a Dragon • Sega • vending machines • video games • yakuza)

Yakuza member arrested on charges of using insurance to pay for severed finger treatment

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 12, 2024

Don’t chop off your own finger if you’re not prepared to pay out of pocket to get sewn up afterwards.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • finger • fraud • pinky • weird • yakuza • yubitsume)

Yakuza lieutenant arrested in Tokyo for stealing Pokémon cards

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 29, 2024

Organized crime syndicate’s M.O. is looking a lot like Team Rocket’s.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • Pokemon • pokemon cards • robbery • weird • yakuza)

Yakuza member selling soda arrested for extorting money from ninja spreading flyers in Asakusa

• Master Blaster
  Feb 13, 2024

Popular area wasn’t big enough for the two of them.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • crime • extortion • Ninja • Ninja-kun • Organized crime • Ramune • Tokyo • yakuza)

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