In an assertive but unsurprising move, the Obama administration threw a road block between Wall Street and some of the world's most prominent organized crime gangs, including a yakuza godfather and his deputy.
The New York Times has a report out Friday on the expanding investigation into whether optics giant Olympus's scandal over missing billions has connections to the yakuza.
A list of the many times and places in which Bulger could have been caught before now
The Japanese criminal underworld courts local governments for lucrative contracts
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