Shinya Yuyama is a former member of the yakuza in Japan. He says he was arrested 11 times, as a juvenile and adult, and has served eight years in prison. He says he joined the mob when he was 18 ...

Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil — the largest Japanese diaspora in the world — Yakuza Princess follows Akemi (MASUMI), an orphan who discovers she is the heiress ...

Interesting character portrayals don’t do enough to make Like A Dragon: Yakuza entertaining. It settles some curiosity to see the world of Kamurochō rendered in live-action, but it’s utterly ...

We got onto the buzz about “transparent aluminum” as a result of a Tweet from whence the image above came. This Tweet was posted by [Jo Pitesky], a Science Systems Engineer at the Jet ...

In Yakuza Kiwami, finding the right weapon can make all the difference, especially as Kiryu faces waves of enemies and powerful bosses. With a variety of options ranging from nunchaku to pistols ...

The loose TV adaptation of the long-running Yakuza game series is already here after being announced in June. As a fan, I was initially both stoked and skeptical hearing the news: The games are ...

If you ask someone like me, who's really into the Yakuza/Like A Dragon games, why you should play the Yakuza/Like A Dragon games, fairly early on in the process there's a good chance they'll end ...

Still, sometimes it takes an outsider to see the obvious. This was the case with the battle menu for the upcoming Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and the results are quite amusing. Back in June ...

It’s the title conferred on the patriarch (or head) of a crime family. This is true of both the real-life yakuza and its fictional counterpart in the Yakuza games Like a Dragon: Yakuza is based on.

It stars Ryoma Takeuchi as Kazuma Kiryu, an orphaned youth who joins the Tojo yakuza clan with dreams of earning the title of Dragon of Dojima. Like a Dragon’s story is loosely based on the ...

Like a Dragon: Yakuza showcases modern Japan and the dramatic stories of these intense characters, such as the legendary Kazuma Kiryu, that games in the past ...