WASHINGTON--Japan remained in the second of four rankings for the fifth consecutive year in a U.S. State Department report on human trafficking over its handling of child prostitution and ...

WASHINGTON--Japan has once again scored poorly on its efforts to stop human trafficking and forced labor in a U.S. State Department report released this week, failing to move up in the ...

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court to weapons and narcotics trafficking charges that carry a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and the possibility of ...

He also pleaded guilty to international narcotics trafficking and weapons charges ... network of criminal associates, which spanned Japan, Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, and the United States ...

transnational Japanese criminal network that operates around the world." "Ebisawa's criminal activities have included large-scale narcotics and weapons trafficking, and his international criminal ...

A Japanese national who federal authorities ... “The Yakuza are involved in various criminal activities, including weapons trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, drug trafficking, fraud ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice ...

A leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate has admitted to ‘brazenly’ trafficking nuclear material from Myanmar to be used by Iran. Takeshi Ebisawa was captured during an undercover ...

21 (UPI) --The alleged leader of Japan's Yakuza crime syndicate was ... Ebisawa, 60, and another defendant were charged with trafficking narcotics following an arrest in Manhattan in April 2022.

An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicates has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash ...