A Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member, who served on the assembly's special committee to investigate power harassment and other ...

Airlines have begun operating international charter flights at Kobe Airport in the western Japanese prefecture of Hyogo. The airport, which was opened in 2006, previously handled only domestic flights ...

Japan’s largest yakuza gang, declared an end to a decade-long feud amid dwindling membership and tougher policing.

Kobe City. He then visited the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake “Memorial and Reconstruction Monument” in Kobe East Park and ...

Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang, which has nearly 3,300 members as of 2024, is reportedly the largest and wealthiest organised ...

Kobe Airport will begin international flight operations on April 18, marking a major shift from its domestic-only status to ...

The Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, which opened April 13, offers a variety of foods, including dishes featuring Kobe beef. A ...

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito apologized to prefectural ... the whistleblower in a news conference at the prefectural office in Kobe, saying that they were appropriate. The panel said that the ...

The crime syndicate has been involved in turf battles with the rival Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, formed by more than a dozen gangs ...

Expedition lines such as Ponant and Scenic also visit; some of their itineraries link Japan with Taiwan or small Pacific islands. By Japanese standards Kobe is a mid-sized city, but has an ...

Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, has responded to the ceasefire pledge. Police said they would be “closely monitoring the movements of ...

Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has ... Three senior members of the Yamaguchi-gumi visited the Hyogo Prefectural police headquarters on Monday and delivered a letter to officers pledging ...