traditionally not Yamaguchi turf. They also have multiple groups working overseas. Immediately after the Kobe earthquake of 1995, the Yamaguchi-gumi started a...

The Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi (神戸山口組) is a yakuza organization based in Hyogo, Japan. The Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza organization included Kobe-based Yamaken-gumi...

Noboru Yamaguchi (山口 登, Yamaguchi Noboru, Japanese: [jamaɡɯt͡ɕi noboɾɯ]) was the second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang in Japan...

members of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, which in turn was split from the Yamaguchi-gumi. Initially, they called themselves Ninkyo-dantai-Yamaguchi-gumi, a nincho...

Harukichi Yamaguchi (山口 春吉, Yamaguchi Harukichi, 1881 – January 17, 1938) was the founder of the Yamaguchi-gumi, which grew to become Japan's largest...

][citation needed] to be bankrolling the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi which split from the 100 year old Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest crime group, on August 27...

Japan. Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi split off from Yamaguchi-gumi in August 2015, Kizuna-kai split off from Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi in April 2017, and Ikeda-gumi split...

withdrew from the Yamaguchi-gumi and formed the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. From 2015 to 2020, it was under the umbrella of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. In August 2020...

The Goto-gumi, as an affiliate of Japan's largest yakuza organization, the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi, was seen as a vanguard for Yamaguchi expansion...

the head of the Takumi-gumi, retaliating ruthlessly against the Nakano-kai. He entered the Kobe headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi in 1997 when he became...

Watanabe headed the Yamaguchi-gumi fifth; on his retirement, Shinobu Tsukasa became head of the Yamaguchi-gumi sixth, and "Yamaguchi-gumi VI" is the group's...

Watanabe joined the Yamaken Gumi, a subgroup of the Yamaguchi Gumi Yakuza, after moving to Kobe. In 1960, the Yamaguchi Gumi was involved in a deadly gang...

kyodaibun (blood brother) to Takeuchi Teruaki, a senior member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, may complicate things. February 2009 saw the Inagawa-kai 'Honbu' (Head...

retirement of previous don Yoshinori Watanabe. Under Shinoda, the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi is expected to continue that expansion into Tokyo and Eastern...

and financial oversteer of the Yamaguchi-gumi. Takumi was kumicho of yakuza's 1000-members until his assassination in Kobe in 1997 by members of the Nakano-kai...

Oda-gumi (織田組) is a yakuza organization founded in 1958 by Hideomi "Joji" Oda in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. Oda-gumi would join the powerful Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate...

yakuza gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi. Known as "the man who never sleeps", he also headed his own sub-organization, the 1000-member Takumi-gumi. He was considered...

1985 to 1989, between the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Ichiwa-kai gangs. Kazuo Taoka was the third boss of the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi, who made the family into...

kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization, from 1946 to 1981. Taoka, an orphan, grew up as a young street fighter in Kobe under the...

was promoted to the Yamaguchi-gumi's provisional number-two (wakagashira), entering the Kobe headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi, as a senior manager...

the founder of the Yamaken-gumi yakuza gang, who were based in Kobe, Japan. It is the largest affiliate of the Yamaguchi-gumi. Yamamoto was the eldest son...

住吉一家親和会 Kansuke Juni-daime 勘助十二代目 Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi Matsuba-kai 松葉会 Kyokuto-kai 極東会 Dojin-kai 道仁会 Kitamura-gumi Yon-daime Kudo-kai 四代目工藤會 Roku-daime...

groups Roku-daime Yamaguchi-gumi 六代目山口組 San-daime Kodo-kai 三代目弘道会 Go-daime Kokusui-kai 五代目國粹会 Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi 神戸山口組 Ni-daime Takumi-gumi 二代目宅見組 Go-daime...

dubbed the "Dojin-kai in the Yamaguchi-gumi". Before 1997, the Nakano-kai had been an affiliate of the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza group...

Motorola provided free telephone service for victims. The organized crime Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate was actively involved in the relief effort from the...

Utada is from Yamaguchi Prefecture, as mentioned on the latter's blog. Harukichi Yamaguchi, founder of the Yamaguchi-gumi, born near Kobe but his entire...

makes for ideal weather conditions for brewing sake in winter. The Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest Yakuza group in Japan, and one of the largest criminal...

absorbed into the Yamaguchi-gumi's ranks and ceased to be an independent operation. It is believed that an American Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate began utilizing...

of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War. He was also the founder and 1st kumicho of the Nakanishi-gumi. Nakanishi...

the headquarters chief of the Yamaguchi-gumi. In late 2005, he was named leader of a more recent Yamaguchi-gumi clan, called the Hanshin-kai. He was also...