Sakaume-gumi
The Sakaume-gumi (酒梅組) is a yakuza organisation based in Osaka, Japan.[1] The Sakaume-gumi is a designatit yakuza group wi an estimatit 110 active memmers.[2]
The Sakaume-gumi is an auld-established, sma group that focuses primarily on gamblin, an no on ither activities lik extortion an drogs. Aiblins acause o this, it haes haed relatively guid relations wi the local polis.
When Japan passed new anti-boryokudan laws in 1992, the Sakaume-gumi wis ane o the few Kansai-based groups no tae launch legal challenges against the new legislation. At a hearin, the group's representative statit, "If the Sakaume-gumi fulfills conditions for designation (as a boryokudan group), we hae nae choice but tae accept it."
History[eedit | eedit soorce]
The Sakaume-gumi wis registered as a designatit yakuza group unner the Organisit Creeme Coontermeasurs Law in Mey 1993.[3]
Condition[eedit | eedit soorce]
The Sakaume-gumi is ane o the tw designatit yakuza groups based in the Osaka Prefectur, alang wi the Azuma-gumi, an maintains its heidquairters office in Nishinari, Osaka.[2]
Ane umwhile memmer o the Sakaume-gumi haes achievit a measur o fame in anither field: born-again Christianity. Rev Hiroyuki Suzuki, a tattooed, pinky-missin umwhile Sakaume-gumi gangster, haes acome Japan's maist colourful evangelical Christian preacher.[4]
Preses[eedit | eedit soorce]
- 1st: Umekichi Tobi
- 2nt: Yukichi Tanaka
- 3rd: Shojiro Matsuyama
- 4t: Yukio Nakano
- 5t (1979–1995): Masao Taniguchi
- 6t (1996–1999): Koji Oyama
- 7t (1999-present): Kozaburo Kaneyama
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Police of Japan 2011, Criminal Investigation : 2. Fight Against Organized Crime" Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine, December 2009, National Police Agency
- ↑ a b "2010 Police White Paper Chapter 2 : Furtherance of Organized Crime Countermeasures", 2010, National Police Agency (in Japanese)
- ↑ "List of designated boryokudan groups under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law", 2 August 2011, The Kochi Prefectural Center for the Elimination of Violence (in Japanese)
- ↑ "He Watched Over His Rackets; Now It's His Flock", 22 June 1999, The New York Times