Read more Yakuza stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1274/yakuza.html2010 - Newseren-usNewser Feed Generator2010-03-11T23:35:31http://www.newser.com/story/52006/in-japan-sun-sets-on-yakuza-mob-scene.htmlThe role of the yakuza in Japanese society has always been hard for Westerners to understand. Since the 1950s the mafia-like organization has been tolerated by government and the public, trusted to run gambling and prostitution rackets with a modicum of respect for social order. But as a tough economy...http://www.newser.com/story/52006/in-japan-sun-sets-on-yakuza-mob-scene.html2009-02-28T11:24:13http://www.newser.com/story/28895/japanese-mob-boss-gave-100k-to-ucla.htmlSuspected Japanese mob boss Tadmasa Goto donated $100,000 to UCLA just months after getting a liver transplant there, the Los Angeles Times reports. Goto was treated in 2001, a year when 186 people died waiting for livers in the LA area alone. The school has confirmed Goto’s donation, but...http://www.newser.com/story/28895/japanese-mob-boss-gave-100k-to-ucla.html2008-05-31T21:01:45http://www.newser.com/story/28794/4-japanese-gangsters-get-ucla-liver-transplants.htmlFour Yakuza gangsters, including one of Japan's most powerful crime bosses, had liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center between 2000 and 2004, the Los Angeles Times reports. Organs were particularly scarce in those years, with over 100 people on the waiting list dying each year. There is no indication that...http://www.newser.com/story/28794/4-japanese-gangsters-get-ucla-liver-transplants.html2008-05-30T09:21:57http://www.newser.com/story/1506/mobster-guns-down-nagasaki-mayor.htmlThe mayor of Nagasaki was murdered yesterday by a gangster affiliated with Japan's largest organized-crime syndicate. The assassin, who shot Iccho Ito twice in the back, reportedly was steamed that the city refused to pay for damages to his car after he drove it into a hole at a construction...http://www.newser.com/story/1506/mobster-guns-down-nagasaki-mayor.html2007-04-18T18:36:28