We may earn a commission from links on this page. Last year at the Tokyo Game Show, Level-5 announced they were making an RPG on the 3DS specifically targeted toward girls. I was interested by the ...

Uh-oh. Yakuza 3 seems to be getting a bit of content cut in the West, specifically some of its mini-games. Even more specifically, the Japanese hostess bar — basically bars or clubs in Japan where ...

This originally appeared on Quora. Answered by Misha Yurchenko. An American man in a typical midwestern town goes to his local bar and orders chicken wings and a Miller Light. He got chewed out by his ...

We love just about everything that comes from Japan: sneakers, fashion, movies, games, and women. Especially the women. Sega’s upcoming action title Yakuza 4 takes the latter to the next level.

A growing number of victims of financial and sexual exploitation are linked to host clubs, which have dotted Japan's red-light district Kabukicho for decades ...

On Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted Tokyo's state of emergency after the rate of new coronavirus infections and deaths slowed. The state of emergency, effectively a soft lockdown, ...

Yakuza 3 players in the west will be unable to frequent or run hostess clubs as IGN reports they're one of several elements cut from the US and European releases of Amusement Vision's Japanese mafia ...

I was in Japan, and a Japanese friend was showing me around the nightclub area. There was one nightclub with very pretty girls, most of them blonde, and they looked very Barbie indeed. So I said, “Are ...

Sega has released a new video for its upcoming open-world RPG, Yakuza 5, in which it chats with general director Toshihiro Nagoshi and producer Masayoshi Yokoyama. In the second of three interview ...

In context: In Japan, hostess clubs are a part of the country's culture, blending tradition with heavy drinking and catering to businessmen seeking to entertain clients or associates. These nightclubs ...

Kazuma Kiryu is the rock upon which the Yakuza (which will be undergoing a name change going forwards) franchise was built. Every game in the series is a whirlwind of conspiracy, intrigue, and ...