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  2. Yakuza - Wikipedia

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    Founded: 17th century (presumed to have originated from the Kabukimono) ... The video game series Like A Dragon, formerly known as Yakuza outside of Japan, launched ...

  3. Goto-gumi - Wikipedia

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    In 2001 the FBI's representative in Tokyo arranged for Tadamasa Goto, then the head of the Goto-gumi, to receive a liver transplant in the United States in return for a $100,000 donation to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and information about Yamaguchi-gumi operations in the U.S. [7] This was done without prior consultation of the Japanese National Police Agency.

  4. List of Yakuza syndicates - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Yakuza (franchise) - Wikipedia

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    Like a Dragon (Japanese: 龍が如く, Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku), formerly known outside of Japan as Yakuza, is a video game franchise created, ...

  6. Yamaguchi-gumi - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Harukichi Yamaguchi - Wikipedia

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    Harukichi Yamaguchi (山口 春吉, Yamaguchi Harukichi, 1881 – January 17, 1938) was the founder of the Yamaguchi-gumi, which grew to become Japan's largest and most powerful yakuza organization. [1] Yamaguchi established the group in Kobe in 1915, and was its kumicho or Godfather until 1925 when he was succeeded by his son Noboru Yamaguchi.

  8. How To Play The Yakuza Series In Chronological Order

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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.

  9. Oda-gumi - Wikipedia

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    Joji at a 1978 press conference. The Oda-gumi (織田組) is a yakuza organization founded in 1958 by Hideomi "Joji" Oda in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan.Oda-gumi would join the powerful Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate as a subsidiary organization under third generation kumicho Kazuo Taoka in 1964, with Oda serving as the Yamaguchi-gumi saiko-komon under Taoka with the right to maintain his own family.