Yamaguchi Noboru (Yakuza)

Yamaguchi Noboru ( Japanese 山口 登 ; * 1902 ; † October 14, 1942 ) was the second gang leader ( Kumichō ) of today's largest yakuza group, Yamaguchi-gumi .

Life

In 1925 he replaced his father Yamaguchi Harukichi as head of the Yamaguchi-gumi. He managed to consolidate the influence of the organization in Kobe , as well as to expand its activities to Osaka . In the summer of 1940 he sustained serious injuries in an argument with other yakuza while in Tokyo . Never completely recovering from it, he died in October 1942. Taoka Kazuo , Yamaguchi's protégé and at that time in prison, became the new leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi in 1946.

literature

• Tetsushi Masanobu: Shōwa no kyōkaku: Kitō Ryōnosuke to Yamaguchigumi 2-daime ( 昭和 の 俠客 ： 鬼頭 良 之 助 と 山口 組 二代 目 ). Chikuma Shobō, Tokyo 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Mark Schreiber: Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan (1996)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yamaguchi is the family name, Noboru the first name.