Japan's favorite crotch-shot model, Yinling of Joy Toy, will be making an appearance in the upcoming third installment of Yakuza.

If you don't follow Japanese soft-porn celebrities, Yinling is a Taiwanese-born swimsuit model well-known in Japan primarily for her signature low-squat and legs-spread pose.

Skilled as she as at this job, she also moonlights as a "talent," which is defined as someone who appears on Japanese variety shows regularly enough to be known for doing such. Yes, I know that's extremely circular and makes no sense, but often enough neither do the existence of most "talents."
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21 Sep 2007

Yakuza 3 stabs us in the face

PS3 News | Yakuza 3

Sept 21, 2007 A trailer for Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan - better known to Western audiences as Yakuza 3 - was unleashed at this year's Tokyo Game Show. Unlike its predecessors, Yakuza 3 will be set during the Edo period in the year 1605. From the looks of things, the game will be full of feudal samurai swordplay. Four fighting styles have been confirmed so far with a blade, dual-wielded swords, a big ass sword, and your two fists at your disposal. Yakuza 3 is scheduled to release in early 2008 in ...
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14 Sep 2007

Yakuza 3: First Feudal shots

PS3 News | Yakuza 3

Sept 14 2007 Out go pole-dancing hookers and in come the look-but-don't-touch Geisha - for the third instalment of Sega's gangland scrapper, Yakuza, the action is shifting to the 17th Century. Set in 1605, Yakuza 3 will take place in Edo. (Learn Something New Every Day department: That's what Tokyo was once called). Immediately, from the first shots, Yakuza takes a clear break from its Oldboy-influenced action and concrete locales. At first, we mistook it for another Kengo, or a new Way of ...
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12 Sep 2007

Yakuza 3 a PS3 Exclusive

PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3

PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Yakuza 3 a PS3 Exclusive

September 12, 2007 - Sony fanboys have a reason to rejoice today as the console war rages on: Yakuza: Kenzan! is coming and you'll only be able to play it on the PlayStation 3.
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12 Sep 2007

Yakuza 3, Eternal Sonata Details & More from Famitsu

PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3

PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Yakuza 3, Eternal Sonata Details & More from Famitsu

Thanks to JohnnyRam over at NeoGAF, onAXIS have some details about Yakuza 3 from the latest Famitsu. Although it's short, it's better than nothing.
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14 Nov 2009

Meet Yakuza 4's 'Massage Babe" - She'll Replenish Your Health

PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 4

PS3 - Yakuza 4 - Meet Yakuza 4's 'Massage Babe" - She'll Replenish Your Health

Now here's an interesting way of regaining your health in a game!

Former Morning Musume singer Mari Yaguchi will make an appearance in Yakuza 4 as the game's "massage babe", Mari, who will replenish your health with a good ol' rubdown.

She might not be quite as... interesting as Yakuza 3's talented masseuse (transsexual model Ayana Tsubaki), but no doubt she'll get the job done and please many gamers while doing it! :D
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13 Nov 2009

A plethora of new Yakuza 4 screens

PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 4

PS3 - Yakuza 4 - A plethora of new Yakuza 4 screens

SCRAWL: "Sega Japan has released a plethora of new screenshots for their upcoming PlayStation 3 sequel, Yakuza 4. The new screenshots detail Yakuza 4's four main protagonists Kiryuu Kazuma, Akiyama Susumu, Saejima River, and Justice Tanimura; them as well as other important characters like (prepare for a list of names) Lily, Kido Takeshi, Dojima Daigo, Takeshi Hamasaki, Sequential Sugiuchi, Arai Hiroaki, Seishiro Munakata, Goro Majima and Haruka."
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9 Oct 2009

Yakuza 4 Ties Up with Darts Bar

PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 4

PS3 - Yakuza 4 - Yakuza 4 Ties Up with Darts Bar

Anoop Gantayat: Looks like we're going to be getting new collaboration news for Yakuza 4 every week until the game's Spring release. Following up on last week's pachinko tie-up announcement, Sega announced today a tie-up with Darts Live, a company that produces Darts Live darts machines.
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7 Oct 2009

Yakuza 4 to Feature In-Game Ads

PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 4

PS3 - Yakuza 4 - Yakuza 4 to Feature In-Game Ads

Anoop Gantayat: With its vast array of real world product tie-ins, one might have mistakenly assumed that the Yakuza series has been using in-game advertising technology since the original PS2 entry. With part 4, Sega will be tapping true in-game ad tech through Double Fusion Japan.
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1 Oct 2009

Yakuza 4 Teams with Pachinko

PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 4

PS3 - Yakuza 4 - Yakuza 4 Teams with Pachinko

Anoop Gantayat: And just like that, Sega's tie-up campaign for Yakuza 4 begins. Now claiming the honor held in the past by such brands as Don Quijoti and Matsuya is online pachinko virual world 777town.net.
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