Harukichi Yamaguchi

Harukichi Yamaguchi — Founder and first-generation boss of the Yamaguchi-gumi.

Role and period

Founder and first-generation boss of the Yamaguchi-gumi.

Primary organization/context: Yamaguchi-gumi. Period: 1915–1925.

Why this person matters

Founded the organization that later became Japan's dominant yakuza syndicate.

This profile is designed as a canonical node rather than a stand-alone celebrity biography. The priority is to show where this person sits in the hierarchy, who they succeeded or challenged, which organization they belonged to at different points in time, and which events changed their position.

Network position

The strongest existing the archive connections are Yamaguchi Gumi. Those links should be treated as dated relationships where affiliation or leadership changed over time.

Expansion path

A later deep audit should add: – verified birth/death dates where available; – exact leadership titles and dates; – convictions, sentences or major court outcomes where applicable; – major rivals, allies and succession relationships; – documented events that justify the person’s place in the Japan graph.

This profile should enrich the existing canonical profile rather than create parallel pages for the same individual.

Sources / audit anchors

– [Japan National Police Agency — Police of Japan / Organized Crime](https://www.npa.go.jp/english/) — Primary official background source for designated boryokudan, enforcement and organized-crime policy. – [Japan National Police Agency — White Papers](https://www.npa.go.jp/publications/whitepaper/) — Primary archive for historical and modern boryokudan data.

Connected records

How to read the network

Documented network

Yamaguchi gumi (organization): Harukichi Yamaguchi is historically documented as affiliated with or leading Yamaguchi-gumi.

yamaguchi gumi (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as related to, documented status, 90% confidence. This label is preserved without inferring a broader association.

Status and record

The structured life-status field is unknown. This administrative value should change only when a reliable current source supports an update.

Source record

The Master package currently attaches these sources to the profile: – Mags go big for Kobe gang's 100th — The Japan Times, Tier 2. – Yamaguchi-gumi Split Signals Changes in the Yakuza World — Nippon.com, Tier 2. – Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960 — Cornell University Press, Tier 2. – Harukichi Yamaguchi — Wikipedia, Tier 3. – Japan National Police Agency — Police of Japan / Organized Crime — Tier 2. – Japan National Police Agency — White Papers — Tier 2.

Claim-level source references remain in the structured data so later audits can trace evidence rather than relying on a generic bibliography.

Evidence and editorial boundaries

For living subjects especially, legal status and allegations require dated evidence. Future expansion should come from stronger records, court material, archives or newly processed canonical entities rather than generalized crime lore.

How this profile fits the archive

The source package currently includes Mags go big for Kobe gang's 100th; Yamaguchi-gumi Split Signals Changes in the Yakuza World; Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960; Harukichi Yamaguchi; Japan National Police Agency — Police of Japan / Organized Crime. Those records define the safe editorial boundary for this version of the page. Unknown dates and unresolved associations remain explicit because a missing fact is a research task, not permission to speculate.

Research state

This depth pass expands the page from structured evidence already present in the Master. The next meaningful improvement should be a stronger primary source, a dated event, a verified legal-status change, a prison record, or a newly processed Book, Screen or Organization entity that creates a legitimate reverse link.

Media remains a separate completion gate. A portrait should be attached only after source page, provenance and reuse status are checked. Until then, text can be complete while media remains pending.

Archive discipline

A stable canonical Person page remains useful even when some biography is unresolved. It prevents duplicate identities and gives future cases, organizations, events, books and screen works one consistent target. Depth should come from verified edges and source-backed chronology, not filler.

Evidence notes already stored

– Harukichi Yamaguchi is historically documented as affiliated with or leading Yamaguchi-gumi.

These notes remain leads for future research and are not expanded beyond their current evidentiary wording.