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  2. Yakuza - Wikipedia

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    The yakuza are aging because young people do not readily join, and their average age at the end of 2022 was 54.2 years: 5.4% in their 20s, 12.9% in their 30s, 26.3% in their 40s, 30.8% in their 50s, 12.5% in their 60s, and 11.6% in their 70s or older, with more than half of the members in their 50s or older.

  3. Yamaguchi-gumi - Wikipedia

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    Yakuza membership has been steadily declining since the 1990s. According to the National Police Agency , the total number of registered gangsters fell 14% between 1991 and 2012, to 78,600. [ 15 ] Of those, 34,900 were Yamaguchi-gumi members, a decline of 4% from 2010. [ 15 ]

  4. List of Yakuza syndicates - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Dojin-kai - Wikipedia

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    The Dojin-kai is a member of an anti-Yamaguchi fraternal federation, the Yonsha-kai, formed with three other northern-Kyushu based independent yakuza syndicates, the Kudo-kai, Taishu-kai and Kumamoto-kai, [2] however even the Kudo-kai, the principal member, is said to have avoided getting deeply involved in the Dojin-kai.

  6. Hisayuki Machii - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  7. How To Play The Yakuza Series In Chronological Order

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    Yakuza 2/Kiwami 2 . Yakuza 2, as you might expect, takes place shortly after the first game, in 2006. ... the West to use the Like a Dragon title instead of Yakuza, due to the events of the game ...

  8. Sōkaiya - Wikipedia

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    In that respect, they have even been compared to corporate lawyers in America. [ 2 ] In 1984, the law made first steps to reduce the threat from sōkaiya by establishing a minimum number of holdings (¥50,000) in order to be allowed into the shareholder meeting, leading to a slow decline of the number of sōkaiya .

  9. Tadamasa Goto - Wikipedia

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    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 ]