A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few women yakuza. But after clawing her way out of the underworld, she now spends her days helping other retired ...

There's something incredibly magnetic about the way a woman carries herself when she doesn't need to rely on being the most dramatic or loudest person in the room. It's the way that she commands ...

Pippa Sharp dismissed a common infection before receiving a devastatingly rare cancer diagnosis. For six months in 2022, Sharp, then 47, suffered from thrush—a common fungal infection that affects 75 ...

While no official police data verifies this, experts say women members are extremely rare. Retired anti-mob detective Yuichi Sakurai said he had never seen a woman yakuza in his 40-year career but "it ...