Tokyo: In a concerning development, a leader of Japan's notorious gang has reportedly orchestrated a scheme to smuggle ...

Takeshi Ebisawa faces a maximum punishment of life in prison after pleading guilty to six counts in a Manhattan court.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share NEW YORK (AP) — The purported leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate pleaded guilty Wednesday to ...

Khamenei continues to resist such notions. In a defiant speech on January 8, he lambasted the U.S. as an imperialist power ...

A leader of Japan's Yakuza crime syndicate who tried to sell Iran weapons-grade plutonium has pleaded guilty to charges of ...

A Japanese man, Takeshi Ebisawa, pleaded guilty this week in a U.S. court to charges of trafficking uranium and plutonium, ...

Myanmar has encountered challenges with its fleet of JF-17 Thunder fighter jets, a joint development by China and Pakistan.

Takeshi Ebisawa pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, to ...

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, a Yakuza leader, was said to have "brazenly trafficked nuclear material, including weapons-grade plutonium".

A Japanese mafia boss has pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar to Iran along with drug trafficking and weapons offences. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, a member of the ...

In February 2024, U.S. authorities charged the Japanese "yakuza" crime leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weapons. He was also ...