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Takeshi Ebisawa (born circa 1964) is the purported leader of a transnational Japanese crime syndicate, known as the yakuza.He gained international notoriety following his arrest and subsequent guilty plea to charges involving the trafficking of nuclear materials, narcotics, and weapons.
Takeshi Ebisawa, the 60-year-old alleged leader of the Japanese yakuza, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday to conspiring with a network of associates to traffic nuclear ...
The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department said in a ...
Mom, boys pulled from watery grave following yakuza wife's The Japan Times September 25, 2004; Arrest made over bodies found in river The Japan Times September 26, 2004; Murder suspect escapes unlocked interrogation room The Japan Times November 14, 2004; Mobster's wife, son to hang for four murders in 2004 The Japan Times October 18, 2006
2nd kumichō (1925–1942): Noboru Yamaguchi, son of Harukichi Yamaguchi; 3rd kumichō (1946–1981): Kazuo Taoka; When Taoka inherited the title of kumichō, it was merely a local family with only a few dozen members. It was Taoka who made Yamaguchi-gumi Japan's largest criminal organization. He urged his underlings to have legitimate ...
An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash ...
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 ...
A former yakuza shot a responding police officer and his two kids before taking his ex-wife hostage after a family dispute, resulting in a 29 hour long stand-off with another officer being killed during the recovery mission of the first police officer. 2007: Murder of Hiroshi Miyamoto: 7: Saga and Fukuoka