Kingo Yoshimizu
Kingo Yoshimizu — Historical Inagawa-kai figure.
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Kingo Yoshimizu — Historical Inagawa-kai figure.
Kiyoshi Azuma — Second-generation Azuma-gumi leader, also known as Kiyoshi Kishida.
Kiyoshi Takagi — Historical organized-crime figure retained as a source-audit expansion node.
A profile of Kiyoshi Takayama, former Kodo-kai chairman and senior Yamaguchi-gumi leader whose influence became central to the…
Kiyoshi Tominaga — Founder of the Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai after splitting from Kyokuryu-kai.
Fifth-generation Yamaken-gumi boss in the turbulent post-2015 period.
Kuniharu Ota — Founder of the organization that became Taishu-kai.
Kuniharu Yamamoto — Senior Yamaken-gumi executive.
Profile of Kunio Inoue, the Yamaken-gumi boss who became leader of Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi after the historic 2015 split.
Masahide Kinoshita — Current-era leader of Sakaume-gumi.
Takenaka was selected as fourth-generation leader in 1984 after a prolonged succession dispute following Taoka’s death.
Masao Hori — Senior leader who rebuilt the organization as Sumiyoshi-rengo and later Sumiyoshi-rengokai.
Masao Tatsuriki — Gang figure charged in connection with the Takashi Ishizuka hospital killing.
Masaru Sekine — Founder of Sekine-gumi, the principal precursor to Matsuba-kai.
Takumi became wakagashira under fifth-generation leader Yoshinori Watanabe and was widely regarded as one of the syndicate’s most…
A profile of Noboru Ando, the former gang leader who reinvented himself as an actor and writer and…
Noboru succeeded his father in 1925 and continued the group’s involvement in waterfront labor and popular entertainment.
Senior Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi executive and one of the principal figures around Kunio Inoue.