Who Is The Current Leader Of The Yakuza

The yakuza a term that refers to both the various gangs and the members of those gangs help out in times of crisis because of something called the ninkyo code it s a principle every yakuza claims to live by one that forbids them to allow anyone else to suffer.

Who is the current leader of the yakuza. A man described by police as a boss in japan s organized crime network the yakuza was found beaten to death on sunday night police told cnn. Boːɾʲokɯꜜdaɴ while the yakuza call themselves ninkyō dantai 任侠団体. A leading yakuza gangster has been arrested along with another influential member of his yamaguchi gumi crime syndicate japanese media report. The asahi shimbun via getty images.

Yakuza also called bōryokudan or gokudō japanese gangsters members of what are formally called bōryokudan violence groups or mafia like criminal organizations in japan and elsewhere especially in the west the term yakuza can be used to refer to individual gangsters or criminals as well as to their organized groups and to japanese organized crime in general. Also known as gokudō 極道 the extreme path ipa. An army of riot police dramatically surrounded a luxury mansion belonging to the leader of japan s most violent yakuza syndicate over allegations he killed an elderly man at point blank range. Shinobu tsukasa leader of japan s largest yakuza gang the yamaguchi gumi at kobe station after being released from prison.

Shinobu tsukasa the current leader of the yamaguchi gumi which is one the biggest most powerful yakuza groups today said in an editorial in the newspaper run by the yamaguchi gumi that they were not as the police claim a violent group but that they were a humanitarian organization which helps japan in times of crisis. Matsugoro ito initially founded the organization as a tokyo shibaura area bakuto gambler union in the early meiji era. Gokɯꜜdoː are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in japan the japanese police and media by request of the police call them bōryokudan 暴力団 violent groups ipa.