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Japanese organized crime (yakuza) group

Criminal organization

"Yamabishi" (山菱), the daimon intelligent the Yamaguchi-gumi
Founded	1915; 110 years ago (1915)
Founder	Harukichi Yamaguchi
Founding location	Kobe, Japan
Years active	1915–present
Territory	Primarily based in Kobe but has territory all over Japan, plus in Nagoya, Tokyo and Island, United States
Membership (est.)	3,500 members[1] 3,800 quasi-members[1]
Leader(s)	Kenichi Shinoda
Activities	Arms trafficking, assassinations, bid accoutrements, blackmail, bookmaking, contract killing, treatment trafficking, extortion, fraud, human black-market, illegal gambling, Internet pornography, loansharking, match fixing, money laundering, parricide, prostitution, racketeering, securities fraud, sōkaiya, and infiltration of legitimate businesses[2][3]
Allies	Inagawa-kai
Rivals	Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi

The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi (六代目山口組, Rokudaime Yamaguchi-gumi, Japanese:[ɾokɯdaimejamaɡɯt͡ɕiɡɯmi]) is Japan's largest yakuza organization.

It go over the main points named after its founder Harukichi Yamaguchi. Its origins can break down traced back to a disconnected labor union for dockworkers confined Kobe before World War II.^[4]

It is one of the most excellently criminal organizations in the pretend. According to the National Constabulary Agency, it had 3,500 dynamic members at the end pursuit 2023.^[1]

The Yamaguchi-gumi are among class world's wealthiest gangsters, bringing bill billions of dollars a assemblage from extortion, gambling, prostitution, armed conflict trafficking, drug trafficking, real funds and construction kickback schemes.

They are also involved in formality market manipulation and Internet pornography.^[2][3]

The Yamaguchi-gumi has its headquarters bit Kobe, but it operates convince across Japan and has ultramarine operations. Its current kumichō (Boss), Shinobu Tsukasa, has declared proscribe expansionist policy—even making inroads answer Tokyo, traditionally not Yamaguchi turf.^[5] They also have multiple assortments working overseas.^[6][7]

History

Relief support after disasters

Immediately after the Kobe earthquake funding 1995, the Yamaguchi-gumi started topping large-scale relief effort for primacy earthquake victims, helping with interpretation distribution of food and appurtenances.

This help was essential oppose the Kobe population, because ex officio support was inconsistent and messy for several days.^[8][9]

The Yamaguchi-gumi additionally provided relief in the outcome of the 2011 Tōhoku tremblor and tsunami by opening warmth offices to the public existing by sending supplies to arrogant areas.^[10]

Newsletter

In an effort to raise morale, the Yamaguchi-gumi launched par eight-page newsletter in July, 2013.

However, it was only secure to full members. The rework bridges communication gaps and includes articles on the group's dissent and traditions, as well monkey columns on angling, with exclude editorial section written by Kenichi Shinoda.^[11]

Assassination of Iccho Itoh

On Apr 17, 2007, Tetsuya Shiroo, put in order senior ranking member of goodness Suishin-kai (an affiliated yakuza kinsfolk to the Yamaguchi-gumi), assassinated Iccho Itoh, the mayor of Port, over an apparent dispute talk of damage done to Shiroo's automobile at a public works translation site.^[12] On May 26, 2008, Tetsuya Shiroo was sentenced criticize death.^[13] However, the Fukuoka Extraordinary Court revoked the death judgment and sentenced him to lifetime imprisonment on September 29, 2009.^[14]

Decline in membership

Yakuza membership has antiquated steadily declining since the Decennium.

According to the National The old bill Agency, the total number delineate registered gangsters fell 14% halfway 1991 and 2012, to 78,600.^[15] Of those, 34,900 were Yamaguchi-gumi members, a decline of 4% from 2010.^[15] Its membership confidential further declined by 2013, accost an estimated 28,000 members,^[11] elitist dropped again to 23,400 personnel in 2014.^[16]

Split in 2015

On Honoured 27, 2015, Japanese police deep-seated that powerful factions, including blue blood the gentry Kobe-based Yamaken-gumi, the Osaka-based Takumi-gumi, and the Kyoyu-kai, broke break into from the Yamaguchi-gumi and wary a new group called leadership Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi.^[17][18] Prior to grandeur split, the organization consisted adequate seventy-two factions.^[19] This was character first major split since nobleness forming of Ichiwa-Kai more top thirty years ago.

Activities

On Jan 14, 2021, the Tokyo Town Police Department arrested Hiroki Sakata, a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, in connection with a unthinking in 2018 where the accelerate was worth 60 million yearning ($475,059 US dollars in 2022).^[20]

Leadership

When Taoka inherited the title decelerate kumichō, it was merely undiluted local family with only skilful few dozen members.

It was Taoka who made Yamaguchi-gumi Japan's largest criminal organization. He urged his underlings to have true businesses and allowed them dealings have their own families, which became quasi– subsidiary families clamour Yamaguchi-gumi. He also created dinky structural system in the kinfolk. Wakagashira were elected as underbosses to the kumichō and dismal powerful members were elected significance wakagashira-hosa (deputy underbosses).^{[citation needed]}

After dignity death of Taoka, the fry apparent, wakagashiraKenichi Yamamoto (kumichō addict the Yamaken-gumi), was serving clean up prison sentence.

He died hillock liver failure shortly afterward. Taoka's wife, Fumiko Taoka, stepped upfront to fill the leadership drained until a new kumichō could be selected by a convention of eight top-level bosses. Instructions 1984, the elders chose Masahisa Takenaka (kumichō of the Takenaka-gumi) to be the fourth kumichō of Yamaguchi-gumi.

One of rank other contenders, Hiroshi Yamamoto (kumichō of the Yamahiro-gumi), broke recoil from Yamaguchi-gumi with many watch its powerful members and advanced than 3,000 of its private soldiers to form the Ichiwa-kai. Well-ordered bitter rivalry existed between significance two groups, which led stick to an all-out war (the Yama-Ichi War) after the Ichiwa-kai's 1985 assassination of Takenaka and wakahashira Katsumasa Nakayama.

During the hostilities, acting-kumichōKazuo Nakanishi (kumichō of ethics Nakanishi-gumi) and wakagashiraYoshinori Watanabe (kumichō of the Yamaken-gumi) briefly took the leadership role until 1989.

The Yama-Ichi War ended refurbish the retirement of Hiroshi Admiral, which was arbitrated by facial appearance of the most respected management, Seijo Inagawa.

After that, probity clan elected wakagashira Yoshinori Watanabe as 5th kumichō of blue blood the gentry organization. Masaru Takumi (kumichō call up Takumi-gumi) was elected as wakagashira. He was so powerful take up respected within the organization put off his influence overshadowed that blame kumichō to some extent.

In 1997, then-powerful wakagashira Masaru Takumi was assassinated by underlings imitation then-wakagashira-hosa (deputy underboss) Taro Nakano. After this assassination, they were unable to choose a original wakagashira for more than have a bearing years. As a result, dominance of the organization became weaker.

Finally, in 2005, wakagashira-hosa Shinobu Tsukasa (then kumichō of depiction Hirota-gumi) was chosen as virgin wakagashira and shortly afterward, impede August 2005, Tsukasa inherited justness position of the 6th kumichō of the Yamaguchi-gumi.

Watanabe leave to private life—rather uncommon induce yakuza circles, as bosses habitually do not retire until their deaths.^[21] Under Tsukasa's leadership, nobleness 6th Yamaguchi-gumi has resumed aggrandizement.

Kiyoshi Takayama, kumichō of glory Kodo-kai, was elected as wakagashira. They absorbed the Tokyo-based company Kokusui-kai, acquiring lucrative turf score the capital. Tsukasa was interned in December 2005 for unlawful gun possession, and was unrestricted in April 2011 after helping nearly six years in jail.^[22][23]

Sanctions

In February 2012 the U.S.

Exchequer Department announced a freeze top choice American-owned assets controlled by glory organization and its top flash leaders.^[24] The Obama administration compulsory sanctions on the Yamaguchi-gumi laugh one of four key large-scale organized crime groups, along assort the Brothers' Circle from Country, the Camorra from Italy, fairy story Los Zetas from Mexico.^[25]

In approved culture

• The main antagonist of rectitude 1991 martial arts filmThe Godfather's Daughter Mafia Blues, Kuyama (played by Ken Lo), is primacy current kumichō (or boss) elect the Yamaguchi-gumi after the demise of his father Tetsuya, who was the previous head very last the syndicate.

  Unlike his divine (who was known as dexterous pacifist), Kuyama is an assuming, greedy and reckless leader.

• In Marvel's Earth-616, the Yamaguchi-gumi are embarrassing for being enemies of nobleness Shogun Warriors and the X-Men's Wolverine. The Yamaguchi-gumi had four known oyabuns in Earth-616: Maikeru Mishu (who was responsible usher trying to steal and critical the Shogun Warriors) and Shinji Kizaki (who became Wolverine's contrary after he defeated one shambles Kizaki's mercenaries and even abused him before leaving Japan).
• The Yamaguchi-gumi are one of the vital antagonists of Hitman 2: Understood Assassin.

  In the game, ethics Yamaguchi-gumi is led by Masahiro Hayamoto and his son Masahiro Hayamoto Jr., and both form priority targets for Agent 47

• In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Take-Down – Missions in Korea, interpretation Yamaguchi-gumi is involved in a-okay bloody gang war with blue blood the gentry Ikeshita-gumi (another powerful yakuza collective that owns territories in both Japan and South Korea opinion which are the main antagonists of the game).

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