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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.
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.
He was the founding head of the Goto-gumi, a Fujinomiya-based affiliate of Japan's largest yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi. [2] Goto, who has been convicted at least nine times, [2] was a prominent yakuza and at one point the most powerful crime boss in Tokyo, [3] even being dubbed the "John Gotti of Japan". [4]
The story focuses on Kōsaku Sakamoto, a high school student who goes to live with yakuza boss Ibari Ōzora and his four children—Tsugumi, Tsubame, Hibari and Suzume—after the death of his mother. Kōsaku is shocked to learn that Hibari, who looks and behaves as a girl, is male. Gokusen: manga (2000), drama (2002, 2005 and 2008) and anime ...
Hisayuki Machii (町井 久之, Machii Hisayuki, July 20, 1923 – September 14, 2002), born Jeong Geon-yeong (Korean: 정건영; Hanja: 鄭建永) was a Korean Japanese yakuza boss. [1] He was nicknamed the "Ginza Tiger" (銀座の虎, Ginza no Tora), and was the founder of one of Japan's most notorious yakuza gangs, the Tosei-Kai.
Akira "Nishiki" Nishkiyama (錦山 彰, Nishikiyama Akira) was born on October 8, 1968, known as simply "Akira Nishiki" in English versions of the first two games and by his original name in Yakuza 4. He is the former best friend and sworn brother of Kiryu, and one of the main antagonists of Yakuza.
In the popular tabletop role-playing game Shadowrun, the kaicho (boss/head/oyabun) of Inagawa-kai in the Shadowrun universe is Michizane Oi, a notorious Japanese elf and yakuza gangster and son of a powerful executive, Samba Oi, the Chairman of the Board of Mitsuhama Computer Technologies (or MCT), one of the biggest Keiretsus in Japan.
In his time as boss, Taoka expanded the Yamaguchi-gumi from a small strikebreaking gang on the Kobe docks to the world's largest criminal syndicate, with over 10,000 members during its peak. Notoriously suspicious and wary of rival yakuza clans, he notably refused to join the Kanto-kai , an inter-yakuza confederation in 1963.