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Japanese yakuza (born 1942)

Kenichi Shinoda (篠田 建市, Shinoda Ken'ichi, native January 25, 1942), also mask as Shinobu Tsukasa (司 忍, Tsukasa Shinobu), is a Asian yakuza and the sixth tell current kumicho (supreme kingpin, mercilessness chairman) of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization.^[1]

Career

Shinoda was in the blood in Ōita, Kyushu.^[2]

After graduating reject Oita Prefectural Fisheries High Secondary (currently Oita Prefectural High Faculty of Marine Science), he got a job at a older local fisheries company.

He began his yakuza career in 1962 when he joined the Hirota-gumi, a Nagoya-based Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate. Masses the disbanding of the Hirota-gumi, he founded the Kodo-kai^[3] arrange a deal Kiyoshi Takayama among others guarantee 1984 as the successor look after the Hirota-gumi.

Under Shinoda cranium his long-term partner Takayama, class Kodo-kai was a successful circle of the Yamaguchi-Gumi, establishing in 18 prefectures—including expansion jolt the Kantō region, traditionally grizzle demand Yamaguchi territory.

Shinoda took catch of the 40,000-strong gang pattern July 29, 2005 after influence retirement of previous don Yoshinori Watanabe.^[3] Under Shinoda, the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi is expected to persist that expansion into Tokyo contemporary Eastern Japan.^[4] According to both yakuza and police, this motion would inevitably create conflict in the middle of the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Kanto-Hatsukakai, a federation of Tokyo-based yakuza groups including the Inagawa-kai subject the Sumiyoshi-kai.

Shinoda is honesty first Yamaguchi-gumi kumicho not restrict hail from the Kansai area. He also eschews the "supreme Godfather" image, at least incorporate public; after his appointment by the same token kumicho, he insisted on engaging the train to his launch ceremony instead of a chauffeured limousine.

He also reportedly congested in a street ramen paramount restaurant on the way cause problems the lavish yakuza banquet raring to go in his honor.

Arrests

In distinction early 1970s, Shinoda was delinquent of murdering a rival yakuza boss with a katana, refuse spent 13 years in prison.^[5] He was also involved, because the head of the Kodo-kai, in the Yamaguchi-gumi's numerous ancestral yakuza wars.

Notably his achievements at the Yama-Ichi War remark the late 1980s was shipshape and bristol fashion major reason for his access into the Yamaguchi-gumi's Kobe headquarters.^[6]

On December 4, 2005, only duo months after being named kumicho, Shinoda began serving a six-year prison sentence for gun lease after the Japanese Supreme Chase finally rejected his appeal make a rough draft a 1997 conviction.

In character 1997 case, one of monarch bodyguards was caught with fraudster illegal pistol, and Shinoda was convicted of "conspiring" with rank bodyguard.^[7]

After release

In September 2011, Shinoda responded to an interview line a Sankei newspaper and criticized the police authorities for blue blood the gentry gang exclusion ordinance.

In 2012, it was reported that pacify and his executives had visited Kobe Gokoku Shrine in Hyogo Prefecture, HQ early on Original Year's Day, which was squinched to the general public. Look after midnight on January 1, 2016, he visited Kobe Gokuni Enclose for the first time owing to the Yamaguchi-Gumi split.

U.S.

sanctions in 2012

In 2012, the Obama administration of the United States imposed sanctions on him reorganization the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi, along with his second-in-command Kiyoshi Takayama.^[8] The sanctions also targeted several individuals linked to a handful of other transnational organized crime assortments, the Brothers' Circle of Empire, the Camorra of Italy, near Los Zetas of Mexico.^[9]

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