Like a Dragon/Yakuza exhibition offers wedding ceremonies with charavter of your choice, provides paperwork to tie the knot and sever it too.
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Yakuza video game even in Japan allows fans to both marry and divorce their 2-D crushes
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Casey Baseel
Oct 29, 2025 - Tweet
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- (crazy • divorce • funny • Like a Dragon • Sega • video games • Wedding • weird • yakuza)
Tokyo Game Show — Cosplay dreams broken, Mr. Sato heads to the Like a Dragon/Yakuza booth anyway
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Casey Baseel
Sep 27, 2025
- Japan
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Kiryu seems like the kind of guy who should know that effort is never meaningless, and this time is no exception.
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Mr. Sato’s mad Majima cosplay and other outfits from Mafia Day at SoraNews24HQ【Photos】
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Apr 2, 2025
Yakuza vending machines coming to real-world Tokyo neighborhood that inspired Like a Dragon games
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Casey Baseel
Nov 21, 2024
- Japan
- (Kabukcho • Like a Dragon • Sega • vending machines • video games • yakuza)
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Casey Baseel
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The iconic scene from Sega’s over-the-top series might look like the sort of thing only video game tough guys can do, but Mr. Sato shows how to do it in real life.
- Japan
- (cosplay • crazy • funny • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Sega • video • video games • yakuza)
Turning your car into a Like a Dragon video game itasha can now get you paid and clothed
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Casey Baseel
Mar 3, 2023
- Japan
- (cars • Cheer Drive • itasha • Like a Dragon • Like a Dragon: Ishin • Sega • video games • yakuza)
Back when she was younger she couldn’t get away from them, so we visit a host club to find out what’s going on.
- Japan
- (COK • crime • host bars • hostess bars • hosts • Ikuna Kamezawa • Kabukicho • Kamurocho • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Ryu ga Gotoku • Sega • shinjuku • SNJO • Tokyo • video game • yakuza)
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Casey Baseel
Dec 9, 2022
- Japan
- (COK • crime • hostess bars • Kabukicho • Kamurocho • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Ryu ga Gotoku • Sega • SNJO • video game • yakuza)
Is real Tokyo as dangerous as the Yakuza video games? Chapter 3: Crazy Town
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Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2022
Stories of blood, cockroaches, and the old days of Kabukicho, Tokyo’s real-world Kamurocho.
- Japan
- (COK • crime • hostess bars • Kabukicho • Kamurocho • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Ryu ga Gotoku • Sega • SNJO • video game • yakuza)
Is real Tokyo as dangerous as the Yakuza video games? Chapter 2: Towards the Gray Darkness
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Casey Baseel
Dec 7, 2022
- Japan
- (COK • crime • hostess bars • Kabukicho • Kamurocho • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Ryu ga Gotoku • Sega • SNJO • video game • yakuza)
Is Tokyo’s real-world Kamurocho as dangerous as the Yakuza games’ setting? Mr. Sato investigates
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Casey Baseel
Dec 6, 2022
Our ace reporter hits the streets in his Kiryu Kazama cosplay to talk to the people who know Kabukicho best.
- Japan
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