Organized crime groups in Japan

, also known as , or simply the Japanese Mafia, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media (by request of the police) call them , while the yakuza call themselves . The English equivalent for the term yakuza is gangster, meaning an individual involved in a Mafia-like criminal organization.

transnational organized crime group primarily based in Hong Kong

Tokuryū (匿流) is a term coined by Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) to describe a new and growing form of loosely organized criminal groups that have emerged as an alternative to traditional yakuza organizations. The term combines the Japanese words and , reflecting the groups' absence of hierarchy and their flexible, anonymous operations.

Asia's largest drug syndicate