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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.
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.
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.
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: a spin-off title that takes place concurrently with the events of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, starring Kazuma Kiryu as the protagonist. The game explores Kiryu's life following the end of Yakuza 6 as a secret agent working for the Daidoji faction, leading to his involvement in Like a Dragon and ...
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.
Kazuma Kiryu (Japanese: 桐生 一馬, Hepburn: Kiryū Kazuma) is a fictional character and the initial main protagonist of Sega's action-adventure beat 'em up Japanese role-playing game series Yakuza / Like a Dragon.
Man's hand showing yubitsume, with the upper two portions of the little finger having been removed. Yubitsume (指詰め, "finger shortening") or otoshimae is a Japanese ritual to atone for offenses to another, a way to be punished or to show sincere apology and remorse to another, by means of amputating portions of one's own little finger.
Kazuo Taoka (田岡 一雄, Taoka Kazuo, March 28, 1913 – July 23, 1981) was one of the most prominent yakuza godfathers. [2]Known as the "Godfather of Godfathers" and "The Japanese Godfather", Taoka was third kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization, from 1946 to 1981.