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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 ...
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 ...
Japanese crime bosses (20 P) Y. ... Kenichi Yamamoto (yakuza) This page was last edited on 10 October 2023, at 21:58 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Yakuza – retroactively called Yakuza 1 by fans – was the first game in the series to be released, and prior to the release of Yakuza 0, was the earliest point in the story’s timeline.
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.
Yakuza are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The English equivalent for the term yakuza is gangster , meaning an individual involved in a Mafia -like criminal organization.
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.
In the popular tabletop role-playing game Shadowrun, the kaicho (boss/head/oyabun) of Inagawa-kai in the Shadowrun universe is Michizane Oi, a notorious Japanese elf and yakuza gangster and son of a powerful executive, Samba Oi, the Chairman of the Board of Mitsuhama Computer Technologies (or MCT), one of the biggest Keiretsus in Japan.