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The Inagawa-kai is the third-largest yakuza family in Japan, with roughly 3,300 members. It is based in the Tokyo-Yokohama area and was one of the first yakuza families to expand its operations outside of Japan. Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi (神戸山口組, Kōbe-Yamaguchi-gumi) The Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi is the fourth-largest yakuza family, with 3,000 ...
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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.
Yakuza membership has been steadily declining since the 1990s. According to the National Police Agency , the total number of registered gangsters fell 14% between 1991 and 2012, to 78,600. [ 15 ] Of those, 34,900 were Yamaguchi-gumi members, a decline of 4% from 2010. [ 15 ]
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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 gang was originally formed in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, but moved its activities east in 1991 when it merged with a gang in Hachiōji, Tokyo.The Goto-gumi, as an affiliate of Japan's largest yakuza organization, the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi, was seen as a vanguard for Yamaguchi expansion into the Kantō region.