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〔''The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi Complete Databook 2008 Edition'' : "Tadashi Irie (Takumi-gumi)", December 2008, Mediax, ISBN 4-86201-358-9〕 is a yakuza, the head (''kumicho'') of the Osaka-based 2nd Takumi-gumi〔("Police anti-gang drive in trouble" ), December 11, 2010, ''Asahi Shimbun''〕 and the grand general manager (''so-honbucho'') of the 6th Yamaguchi-gumi.〔 He is regarded as the number-three leader of the 6th Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest known yakuza syndicate.〔 ==Career== Irie began his career as a yakuza when he joined the Fukui-gumi, a Yamaguchi affiliate based in Osaka. He later joined the Takumi-gumi in 1978 when Masaru Takumi, then the number-two member (''wakagashira'') of the Fukui-gumi, became an executive underboss (''jikisan'') of the 3rd Yamaguchi-gumi. Prior to this he was the head of his own clan, the Irie-gumi, which he formed in 1975, but following this he merged it into the Takumi-gumi.〔 He was known for his unwavering loyalty to Masaru Takumi; he had been offered the Yamaguchi-gumi's executive position several times, but he repeatedly declined, preferring to be Takumi's henchman.〔 In 1997 when Takumi was assassinated by the Nakano-kai, he succeeded as the head of the Takumi-gumi,〔("Osaka Police Nab Another Yakuza Boss as Crackdown Continues" ), December 1, 2010, ''The Wall Street Journal''〕 making excessively ruthless organized attacks on the Nakano-kai in retaliation.〔 He entered the Kobe headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi in 1997 when he became the head of the Takumi-gumi. He was promoted to ''wakagashira-hosa'' (one of the number-three underbosses) in 2005,〔 and following the start of the sixth era headed by Shinobu Tsukasa from the Kodo-kai of Nagoya, he flew the de facto number-three position (''so-honbucho'').〔("Into the Yamaguchi-gumi's 'total domination' of the underworld" ), September 10, 2008, ''Monthly Central Journal'', ''Central News Bank'' 〕 He has been involved in the Yamaguchi-gumi's important yakuza wars such as the Osaka War (1975–1978, against the Matsuda-gumi) and Yama-Ichi War (1984–1989, against the Ichiwa-kai).〔 On December 1, 2010 — just 2 weeks after the arrest of the "number-two of the Yamaguchi-gumi" Kiyoshi Takayama〔("Dawn raid on Japanese syndicate" ), December 1, 2010, ''The Courier-Mail''〕 —, Irie, as the "number-three of the Yamaguchi-gumi",〔 was arrested on suspicion of compensating the relatives of a hitman (a member of the Takumi-gumi〔("Takumi-gumi kumicho receives a 10 months jail sentence after confessing to charges" ), February 28, 2011, ''Sankei Shimbun'' 〕) who had been jailed for murdering a senior member of the Nakano-kai.〔("Japan's No. 3 gangster arrested in police war on underworld" ), December 1, 2010, ''AFP''〕 He was charged with paying 3.9 million yen ($46,555) to the hitman's relatives,〔 whom he had paid a total of at least approximately US$250,000.〔("200,000 yen per month to a member in prison – the arrested Yamaguchi-gumi number-three" ), December 1, 2010. ''Asahi Shimbun'' 〕 He was released on bail on December 24 of that year,〔("Yamaguchi-gumi : Kumicho of the Takumi-gumi, who compensated a hitman's family, is released" ), December 25, 2010, ''Mainichi Shimbun'' 〕 and received a jail sentence of 10 months in March 2011.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tadashi Irie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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