Battling the Yakuza

Japan’s authorities are clamping down on the criminal underworld, but the mighty Yakuza refuse to back down. Read more Japan’s criminal underworld, the Yakuza, has links that go back 400 years to the Edo era. The various gangs that make up the Japanese mafia have different origins, but many claim that the Yakuza descend from Robin-Hood-like characters who defended their villages against roving ban