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The English equivalent for the term yakuza is gangster, meaning an individual involved in a Mafia-like criminal organization. [3] The yakuza are known for their strict codes of conduct, their organized fiefdom nature, and several unconventional ritual practices such as yubitsume, or amputation of the left little finger. [4]
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 ...
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]
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 .
Called Ryū ga Gotoku 8 in Japan, this is the first main series game in the West to use the Like a Dragon title instead of Yakuza, due to the events of the game prior.
Nonetheless, yakuza often picture themselves as saviors of traditional Japanese virtues in postwar society, sometimes forming ties with traditionalist groups espousing the same views and attracting citizens not satisfied with society. Yakuza groups in 1990 were estimated to number more than 3,300 and together contained more than 88,000 members.
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]
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.