Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi Japan's largest Yakuza group is splitting up due to irecensibile differences. What drove them to seek a divorce? The leadership's failure to expand it's operation in Tokyo. When the last split took place in the 1980's there was a gang war. Among the incidents that took place were members driving large construction equipment into another members home.
Japan’s largest crime syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi has split up, with dissident factions forming a new group, police sources said Sunday.
The new group, which is likely to be named Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, is headed by Kunio Inoue, 67, the boss of the Yamaken-gumi recently expelled from the Yamaguchi-gumi, according to the sources.
Approximately 3,000 members have left the Yamaguchi-gumi in the latest rift among Japan’s yakuza gangsters, they said.
The Yamaguchi-gumi “excommunicated” or “insulated” the leaders of 13 affiliates after the Yamaken-gumi and other groups under its umbrella showed signs of defecting in late August.
The Yamaken-gumi, once headed by the previous boss of the Yamaguchi-gumi, is said to have some 2,000 members, the largest among Yamaguchi-gumi affiliates before the split-up.
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