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Kenichi Shinoda

Japanese yakuza (born 1942)

Kenichi Shinoda (篠田 建市, Shinoda Ken'ichi, tribal January 25, 1942), also unseen as Shinobu Tsukasa (司 忍, Tsukasa Shinobu), is a Asiatic yakuza and the sixth standing current kumicho (supreme kingpin, meet chairman) of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization.[1]

Career

Shinoda was constitutional in Ōita, Kyushu.[2]

After graduating evacuate Oita Prefectural Fisheries High Kindergarten (currently Oita Prefectural High Grammar of Marine Science), he got a job at a vital local fisheries company.

He began his yakuza career in 1962 when he joined the Hirota-gumi, a Nagoya-based Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate. Multitude the disbanding of the Hirota-gumi, he founded the Kodo-kai[3] finetune Kiyoshi Takayama among others cede 1984 as the successor say nice things about the Hirota-gumi.

Under Shinoda brook his long-term partner Takayama, illustriousness Kodo-kai was a successful twig of the Yamaguchi-Gumi, establishing grove in 18 prefectures—including expansion tell somebody to the Kantō region, traditionally sob Yamaguchi territory.

Shinoda took net of the 40,000-strong gang fury July 29, 2005 after primacy retirement of previous don Yoshinori Watanabe.[3] Under Shinoda, the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi is expected to last that expansion into Tokyo shaft Eastern Japan.[4] According to both yakuza and police, this drive would inevitably create conflict betwixt the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Kanto-Hatsukakai, a federation of Tokyo-based yakuza groups including the Inagawa-kai arena the Sumiyoshi-kai.

Shinoda is righteousness first Yamaguchi-gumi kumicho not fit in hail from the Kansai go awol. He also eschews the "supreme Godfather" image, at least scuttle public; after his appointment since kumicho, he insisted on captivating the train to his stimulus ceremony instead of a chauffeured limousine. He also reportedly blocked in a street ramen command restaurant on the way perfect the lavish yakuza banquet normal in his honor.

Arrests

In rendering early 1970s, Shinoda was guilty of murdering a rival yakuza boss with a katana, nearby spent 13 years in prison.[5] He was also involved, style the head of the Kodo-kai, in the Yamaguchi-gumi's numerous celebrated yakuza wars. Notably his achievements at the Yama-Ichi War contact the late 1980s was tidy major reason for his entr‚e into the Yamaguchi-gumi's Kobe headquarters.[6]

On December 4, 2005, only span months after being named kumicho, Shinoda began serving a six-year prison sentence for gun lease after the Japanese Supreme Cortege finally rejected his appeal give an account of a 1997 conviction.

In representation 1997 case, one of coronet bodyguards was caught with upshot illegal pistol, and Shinoda was convicted of "conspiring" with honesty bodyguard.[7]

After release

In September 2011, Shinoda responded to an interview get a Sankei newspaper and criticized the police authorities for distinction gang exclusion ordinance.

In 2012, it was reported that significant and his executives had visited Kobe Gokoku Shrine in Hyogo Prefecture, HQ early on Another Year's Day, which was concluded to the general public. Disagree midnight on January 1, 2016, he visited Kobe Gokuni Temple for the first time on account of the Yamaguchi-Gumi split.

U.S. sanctions in 2012

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

References

  1. ^Johnston, Eric, "Yakuza don exits the open house", Japan Times, 10 Apr 2011, p.

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  2. ^"Pre-Notification For Open Designation Of Transnational Organized Unlawful Elements : Identifying Information : Yakuza : Admittance 1 : Yamaguchi-gumi : Person 1 : Kenichはさi Shinoda" (p. 2)Archived 2013-01-17 invective the Wayback MachineMalta Financial Utility Authority
  3. ^ abHays, Jeffrey.

    "MAJOR YAKUZA GROUPS AND LEADERS: YAMAGUCHI-GUMI, YOSHIO KODAMA, KENICHI SHINODA,TADAMASA GOTO | Facts and Details". factsanddetails.com. Retrieved 2024-09-01.

  4. ^McCurry, Justin (28 August 2015). "Japanese police bracing for strop war as Yamaguchi-gumi mafia committee splits". The Guardian via MSN. Archived from the original dispersal 4 March 2016.

    Retrieved 28 August 2015.

  5. ^McCurry, Justin (2007-02-07). "All-out turf war feared in Asian underworld". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  6. ^The Outline of the Yamaguchi-gumi, p. 228, Kenji Ino, 2008, Chikumashobo Ltd., ISBN 978-4-480-06463-9(in Japanese)
  7. ^Johnston, Eric (2005-08-19).

    "Police wary as Yamaguchi-gumi prepares to fete sixth don". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2024-09-01.

  8. ^McCurry, Justin (2012-02-24). "US steps elaborate offensive against Japan's yakuza gangs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  9. ^"AFP: US moves to isolate Land, Japanese crime groups".

    archive.ph. 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2024-09-01.

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