A Japanese Yakuza leader pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday for attempting to traffic military-grade weapons and ...

He also told an agent posing as an Iranian general that he could supply him “better” and more “powerful” plutonium for the country’s nuclear weapons program. Ebisawa sent photos of ...

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

and that the "the isotope composition of the plutonium" was weapons-grade, meaning enough of it would be suitable for use in a nuclear weapon. Last year, prosecutors posted photos of the purported ...

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