Name Masahisa Takenaka | ||
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Born November 30, 1933 Himeji, Japan Died January 27, 1985, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan Siblings Takeshi Takenaka, Masashi Takenaka Similar People Kazuo Taoka, Yoshinori Watanabe, Kenichi Shinoda, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Masaru Takumi | ||
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Masahisa Takenaka (竹中 正久, November 30, 1933 – January 27, 1985) was the short-lived 4th kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza gang.
He took the role of kumicho (supreme Godfather) in 1984, but was assassinated at a girlfriend's home in Osaka early the next year by a rival faction, the Ichiwa-kai. The killing sparked a massive yakuza war, the Yama-Ichi War, in which more than 20 people died.
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