‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza ^21.1%

The Guardian - By Sean Williams - 5/21/2026, 4:00 AM

Negativity Bias 17.2% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 11.4% - Hasty Generalization 9.9%

In almost 40 years, Mako Nishimura never lost a fight. She told me this as if it were as obvious as night following day. Nishimura is 5ft-nothing and slight of build. She is also probably the only woman ever to have been a full-fledged yakuza, a member of Japan’s feared and rule-bound criminal underworld. She must have defeated many male... more