Sumiyoshi-ikka
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The Sumiyoshi-ikka is an affiliate of the Sumiyoshi-kai
yakuza
syndicate, based in Tokyo
, Japan
. Its current leader is Hareaki Fukuda, who is also the kaicho of the Sumiyoshi-kai.
Sumiyoshi-kai
The , sometimes referred to as the , is the second-largest yakuza group in Japan with an estimated 20,000 members.The Sumiyoshi-kai is a confederation of smaller gangs. Its current sosai, or president, is Shigeo Nishiguchi. Structurally, the Sumiyoshi-kai differs from its main rival, the...
yakuza
Yakuza
, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...
syndicate, based in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Its current leader is Hareaki Fukuda, who is also the kaicho of the Sumiyoshi-kai.
Successive sochos
- 1st: Matsugoro Ito (伊藤 松五郎)
- 2nd: Naokichi Kuramochi (倉持 直吉)
- 3rd (1948-1962): Shigesaku Abe (阿部 重作)
- 4th (1962-1967): Yoshimitsu Sekigami (磧上 義光) who was kaicho of the former Sumiyoshi-kai.
- 5th (1967-1990): Masao Hori (堀 政夫) who was sosai of Sumiyoshi-rengokai. He was 4th Nakazato (中里) in the Sumiyoshi-ikka.
- 6th (1991-2005): Shigeo Nishiguchi (西口 茂男) who is sosai of Sumiyoshi-kaiSumiyoshi-kaiThe , sometimes referred to as the , is the second-largest yakuza group in Japan with an estimated 20,000 members.The Sumiyoshi-kai is a confederation of smaller gangs. Its current sosai, or president, is Shigeo Nishiguchi. Structurally, the Sumiyoshi-kai differs from its main rival, the...
. He was 2nd Kogo (向後) in the Sumiyoshi-ikka. - 7th (2005-): Hareaki Fukuda (福田 晴瞭) who is 2nd kaicho of Sumiyoshi-kaiSumiyoshi-kaiThe , sometimes referred to as the , is the second-largest yakuza group in Japan with an estimated 20,000 members.The Sumiyoshi-kai is a confederation of smaller gangs. Its current sosai, or president, is Shigeo Nishiguchi. Structurally, the Sumiyoshi-kai differs from its main rival, the...
. He was 2nd kaicho of the Kobayashi-kai (小林会) in the Sumiyoshi-ikka.