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Name Japanese Name Headquarters Designated in Notes Ishikawa-ikka 石川一家 Saga: 1993–1995 Ishikawa is the surname of the boss. It was joined to the Yamaguchi-gumi V in 1995. Dainippon-Heiwa-kai II 二代目大日本平和会 Hyogo: 1994–1997 It was successor of Honda-kai. Dainippon means Great Japan and heiwa means peace. It was not ...
Japanese crime bosses (20 P) Y. ... Pages in category "Yakuza members" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... This page was last edited on ...
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.
Voiced by: Takafumi Yamaguchi (Yakuza), Tomokazu Sugita (Yakuza Kiwami) (Japanese); Daniel Capellaro (Yakuza) (English) Introduced in: Yakuza. Kazuma Kiryu's partner, Shinji (田中 シンジ, Tanaka Shinji) looks up to Kiryu and helps him out when he can. He was part of the Dojima Family but joined the Kazama Family after Sohei Dojima's death ...
Sukeban (スケバン/助番) is a Japanese term meaning ' delinquent girl ', and the female equivalent to the male banchō in Japanese culture. The usage of the word sukeban refers to either the leader of a girl gang or the entire gang itself, [4] [better source needed] and is not used to refer to any one member of a girl gang.
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.
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.
A 12-year-old Japanese girl was kidnapped, raped and beaten by three U.S Servicemen. This incident caused public outrage to erupt in Japan and led to further debate over the continued presence of U.S. forces in Japan. 1995: Hachiōji supermarket murders: 3: Hachiōji, Tokyo: Three employees of a supermarket are found shot dead in a suspected ...