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Yakuza exclusion ordinances or Organized crime exclusion ordinances (暴力団排除条例, Bōryoku-dan Haijo Jōrei) is the Japanese collective term for ordinances or local laws that aim to cut the citizen–yakuza relationship. [1] The intent is to shift from "the yakuza versus the police" to "the yakuza versus society".
Since 2011, regulations outlawing business with yakuza members, government-ordered audits of yakuza finances, and the enactment of yakuza exclusion ordinances have hastened a decline in yakuza membership. The number of yakuza members and quasi-members fell from 78,600 in 2010 to 25,900 in 2020.
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.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza [a] is a Japanese-language American crime action television series produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Wild Sheep Content, and 1212 Entertainment. It is a live-action adaptation of Sega 's Like a Dragon video game series, and the first since the 2007 film Like a Dragon .
Yakuza 6 returns to having just a single protagonist – Kazuma Kiryu – and for a long while it seemed like it would be the last game to feature the leading man in the leading role.
Shimizu Jirochō (Japanese: 清水次郎長, 14 February 1820 – 12 June 1893) was a famous yakuza and entrepreneur. [2] [3] He is considered a folk hero in Japan. [2]Born Chōgorō Yamamoto (山本潮五郎), he was adopted by his uncle Jirohachi Yamamoto who was a rice wholesaler. [4]
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]
Kazuo Taoka (田岡 一雄, Taoka Kazuo, March 28, 1913 – July 23, 1981) was one of the most prominent yakuza godfathers. [2]Known as the "Godfather of Godfathers" and "The Japanese Godfather", Taoka was third kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization, from 1946 to 1981.