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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 ...
The name yakuza originates from the traditional Japanese card game Oicho-Kabu, a game in which the goal is to draw three cards adding up to a score of 9. If the sum of the cards is 10 or more, the second digit is the score.
Like a Dragon, formerly titled Yakuza outside Japan, is a role playing video game series developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku and published by Sega. The series debuted in 2005 with the release of Yakuza on PlayStation 2.
The gameplay of Yakuza / Like a Dragon has the player controlling Kiryu (or another character, depending on the title) in an open world where he can fight random groups of punks and gangsters, take on side missions and activities to earn experience and money, learn new moves from non-player characters (NPCs), eat and drink at various ...
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.
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The English equivalent for the term yakuza is gangster, meaning an individual involved in a Mafia-like criminal organization. Pages in category "Fictional yakuza" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Masayoshi Yokoyama (横山 昌義 Yokoyama Masayoshi, born June 30, 1976) is a Japanese game producer, director and writer for Sega, most specifically Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, a studio within Sega Development Div. 1, where he's been the head of the division and studio since 2021.