Goda-ikka
The Goda-ikka (合田一家 Gōda-ikka) is a yakuza group based in Yamaguchi, Japan.[1] The Goda-ikka is a designated yakuza group and Yamaguchi Prefecture's largest yakuza group with an estimated 440 members.[2]
History
The group was formed in 1948 as the Goda-gumi (合田組 Gōda-gumi) in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi by Koichi Goda, then a member of an old yakuza clan named the Kagotora-gumi. The Goda-gumi was renamed the Goda-ikka in 1968.[3] The Goda-ikka was registered as a designated yakuza group under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law in July 1992.[4]
Kanji Nukui became the six generation president in 1994. In October 2009 following Nukui's retirement, Makoto Suehiro succeeded Nukui, becoming the president of the seventh generation Goda-ikka.[2]
Condition
Based in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, the Goda-ikka has its known offices in two other prefectures.[5]
The Goda-ikka is the largest yakuza group in Yamaguchi Prefecture followed by the Yamaguchi-gumi, and as of 2008, about 64% of yakuza members in Yamaguchi Prefecture belong to the Goda-ikka.[6]
Since 1996, the Goda-ikka has been a member of an anti-Yamaguchi federation named the Gosha-kai, along with three other Chugoku-based organizations, the Kyosei-kai, the Kyodo-kai, the Asano-gumi, and the Shikoku-based Shinwa-kai.[7]
Presidents
- 1st: Koichi Goda
- 2nd: Ichiro Hamabe
- 3rd: Akira Hamasaki
- 4th: Tomoharu Kawasaki
- 5th: Daiko Yamanaka
- 6th: Kanji Nukui
- 7th: Makoto Suehiro (Korean name: Kim Kyo-Hwan, 김교환)
References
- ↑ "Police of Japan 2011, Criminal Investigation : 2. Fight Against Organized Crime", December 2009, National Police Agency
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The 7th President announces the succession, The Goda-ikka, The Prefectural Police on red alert", 21 October 2009, Yamaguchi Shimbun (Japanese)
- ↑ "1993 Police White Paper Chapter 1 : The Actual Condition of the Boryokudan", 1993, National Police Agency (Japanese)
- ↑ "List of designated boryokudan groups under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law", 2 August 2011, The Kochi Prefectural Center for the Elimination of Violence (Japanese)
- ↑ "2010 Police White Paper Chapter 2 : Furtherance of Organized Crime Countermeasures", 2010, National Police Agency (Japanese)
- ↑ "2008's First Shunan City Police Department Conference Proceedings", 2008, Yamaguchi Prefectural Police (Japanese)
- ↑ "The Fourth Kyosei-kai", 20 February 2008, Matsue Joho Center (Japanese)
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