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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 English equivalent for the term yakuza is ... at the top and kobun (gang members) ... The number of yakuza members and quasi-members fell by about 70 percent in ...
The Azuma-gumi (東組) is a yakuza organization based in Osaka, Japan. [1] The Azuma-gumi is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 90 active members. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
On April 17, 2007, Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior ranking member of the Suishin-kai (an affiliated yakuza family to the Yamaguchi-gumi), assassinated Iccho Itoh, the mayor of Nagasaki, over an apparent dispute over damage done to Shiroo's car at a public works construction site. [12] On May 26, 2008, Tetsuya Shiroo was sentenced to death. [13]
On 16 September 2021, the Yamaguchi-gumi announced that it will be welcoming back Yamaken-gumi members who had disunited from them in 2015. As a result, the Yamagken-gumi once again became the umbrella organisation of the Yamaguchi-gumi. [5] [6] Before the split, the Yamaken-gumi was estimated to have between 3,000 and 7,000 members.
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 achieved notoriety the following year when five of its members assaulted and seriously injured Japanese filmmaker Juzo Itami in retaliation for Itami's negative portrayal of the yakuza in his film Minbo no Onna. A former member confessed in 2008 that Itami's death in 1997, reported as a suicide at a time, was a murder carried out by ...