Yakuza boss Yoshinori Watanabe Most Respected

                            

KOMPAS.com - Maybe some of you have heard the word Yakuza? According to wikipedia, the Yakuza are members of traditional Japanese crime syndicate. Japanese police and media call boryokudan or group violence. Meanwhile, members of the yakuza call themselves ninkyo dantai or literally can mean the organization were very polite.

In many action movies, Yakuza members described as violent men, fierce and fearless. In addition, they also uphold the honor and the secret organization. Is this true? An Indonesian journalist, Richard Susilo strong 20 years living in Japan, Yakuza pursue the ins and outs of this. And, Richard donated a number of his writings about the Yakuza to the reader Kompas.com .

Who says crime groups commonly called yakuza, could only ask for money only? The main leader of the largest yakuza group, Yamaguchi-gumi to-5, Yoshinori Watanabe (71) even donated billions of yen worth of food for tens of thousands of victims of natural disasters in Kobe in 1995. This is obviously not going to be forgotten by many urban residents and their families.

Watanabe became boss in 1989 and stopped in 2005 due to age and health. He is the most respected many yakuza group as the lead intelligence and ability to mediate when there are two parties to the dispute.

According to Japanese police today there are 15,000 members of the Yamaguchi-gumi official and 16,000 affiliated members. Spread across 47 prefectures in Japan following their offices, except in Hiroshima and Okinawa. At least 5,000 people

additional members of the Yamaguchi-gumi thanks to the cold hands Watanabe recorded in history since 96 years ago Yamaguchi-gumi stand.

Then with the advent of the anti Japanese crime syndicate in 1992, she later split members into small groups. The solution is intended for him to more easily monitor their activities.

In 1995, Kobe earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, struck the city, the author witnessed the helicopter a week after the earthquake.

But the spirit of rebuilding Kobe and surrounding communities is extraordinary, including 20,000 relief set of food and one billion yen in the form of various kinds of daily necessities from Watanabe was helping the disaster victims.

After Kobe bounce back, he's got a lot of property projects to construct various places in the Kansai area which includes Kobe, Osaka and surrounding areas.

Watanabe stood and was elected to the supreme leader Yamaguchi-gumi are very appropriate in a crisis organization.

Previous led Kazuo Taoka 1981. After death, Taoka's wife led until 1984. Then Masahisa Takenaka elected. But shortly afterwards killed Ichiwa-kai crime syndicate and continues with yakuza gang warfare in Japan.

At that time Japan was very chaotic condition with inter-gang warfare, but with the advent Watanabe, gang wars stop. All that can happen thanks dinginnuya hands and his ability to mediate a dispute between gangs.

births in 1941 from Tochigi prefecture was only completed junior high school (junior high school) at age 17 to join Yamaken-gumi, which is affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi.

In 1960, Watanabe has also proven itself to have cold hands to separate the two parties to the dispute. This extraordinary ability to make many people respect him and he often became a place to vent a lot of parties. Police suspect Watanabe

income of about one million dollars per month. Yakuza leader who is also good at making noodles, hobbies golf, weightlifting, jogging , and study the history of China's, has been fined 80 million yen by the Osaka High Court for being responsible for the actions of his men were killed cop Japan in 1995 . The yakuza boss died on December 1, 2012 in Kobe.