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Name Japanese Name Headquarters Reg. in Notes Yamaguchi-gumi VI 六代目山口組 Kobe, Hyogo: 1992 It was founded in 1915 and split from the Oshima-gumi in 1932. Yamaguchi is the surname of the founder and first boss and kumi or gumi means group. Inagawa-kai: 稲川会 Minato, Tokyo: 1992
Kenichi Shinoda (篠田 建市, Shinoda Ken'ichi, born January 25, 1942), also known as Shinobu Tsukasa (司 忍, Tsukasa Shinobu), is a Japanese yakuza and the sixth and current kumicho (supreme kingpin, or chairman) of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization.
The main antagonist of the 1991 martial arts film The Godfather's Daughter Mafia Blues, Kuyama (played by Ken Lo), is the current kumichō (or boss) of the Yamaguchi-gumi after the death of his father Tetsuya, who was the previous head of the syndicate. Unlike his father (who was known as a pacifist), Kuyama is an arrogant, greedy and reckless ...
Category: Yakuza members. 7 languages. ... Japanese crime bosses (20 P) Y. Yamaguchi-gumi (30 P) Z. Zainichi Korean yakuza members (3 P) Pages in category "Yakuza ...
The name yakuza originates from the traditional Japanese card game Oicho-Kabu, a game in which the goal is to draw three cards adding up to a score of 9. If the sum of the cards is 10 or more, the second digit is the score.
Kiyoshi Takayama (髙山 清司, Takayama Kiyoshi, born September 5, 1947 [1] in Tsushima, Aichi [1]) is a yakuza best known as the second-in-command (wakagashira) of the 6th-generation Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest known yakuza syndicate in Japan, and the president of its ruling affiliate, Kodo-kai, based in Nagoya.
Yakuza – retroactively called Yakuza 1 by fans – was the first game in the series to be released, and prior to the release of Yakuza 0, was the earliest point in the story’s timeline.
The Matsuba-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 360 active members as of 2020. [3] [4] The Matsuba-kai is a member of a yakuza fraternal federation named the Kantō Hatsuka-kai, along with four other Kantō-based yakuza syndicates, the Sumiyoshi-kai, the Inagawa-kai, the Toa-kai, and the Soai-kai. [5]