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  2. List of Yakuza syndicates - Wikipedia

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    Mon (crest) Yamaguchi-gumi (六代目山口組, Rokudaime Yamaguchi-gumi) The Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest yakuza family, with about 8,200 members. "Yamabishi" (山菱) Sumiyoshi-kai (住吉会) The Sumiyoshi-kai is the second-largest yakuza family, with 4,200 members. Sumiyoshi-kai is a confederation of smaller yakuza groups. Its current head ...

  3. Yakuza - Wikipedia

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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. So a sum of 13 is a score of 3, a sum of 14 is a score of 4, etc. A sum of 10 or 20 is a score of 0.

  4. Yamaguchi-gumi - Wikipedia

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    Yamaguchi-gumi. The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi (六代目山口組, Rokudaime Yamaguchi-gumi, Japanese: [ɾokɯdaime jamaɡɯt͡ɕi ɡɯmi]) is Japan 's largest yakuza organization. It is named after its founder Harukichi Yamaguchi. Its origins can be traced back to a loose labor union for dockworkers in Kobe before World War II. [4]

  5. Characters of the Yakuza series - Wikipedia

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    Haruka Sawamura (Japanese: 澤村 遥, Hepburn: Sawamura Haruka) is a fictional character from the series Yakuza. Introduced in Yakuza, Haruka was born to Yumi Sawamura and politician Kyohei Jingu in 1996, and grew up in the Sunflower Orphanage where Kiryu, Nishiki and Yumi grew up in. During the events of Yakuza, Haruka is looking for her ...

  6. Goro Majima - Wikipedia

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    Goro Majima. Goro Majima (Japanese: 真島 吾朗, Hepburn: Majima Gorō) is a major recurring character in Sega 's Like a Dragon video game series, previously known as Yakuza outside of Japan. He is one of the main playable protagonists of Yakuza 0 and Yakuza: Dead Souls, as well as the Majima Saga of Yakuza Kiwami 2. Introduced as a member of ...

  7. Mon (emblem) - Wikipedia

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    Mon (紋), also called monshō (紋章), mondokoro (紋所), and kamon (家紋), are Japanese emblems used to decorate and identify an individual, a family, or (more recently) an institution, municipality or business entity. While mon is an encompassing term that may refer to any such device, kamon and mondokoro refer specifically to emblems ...

  8. Tokugawa clan - Wikipedia

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    The Tokugawa's clan symbol, known in Japanese as a "mon", the "triple hollyhock" (although commonly, but mistakenly identified as "hollyhock", the "aoi" actually belongs to the birthwort family and translates as "wild ginger"—Asarum), has been a readily recognized icon in Japan, symbolizing in equal parts the Tokugawa clan and the last shogunate.

  9. Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - Wikipedia

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    Action-adventure. Mode (s) Single-player. Yakuza 6: The Song of Life[b][1] is an action-adventure video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega for PlayStation 4. The game is the seventh main entry in the Yakuza series and the final main game to feature Kazuma Kiryu as the primary protagonist, [2][3][4][5] and was released ...