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