Goda-ikka

Goda-ikku
The daimon of Goda-ikka
FounderKoichi Goda
Founding locationYamaguchi, Japan
Membership60
Leader(s)Makoto Suehiro

The Goda-ikka (合田一家, Gōda-ikka) is a yakuza group based in Yamaguchi, Japan.[1] It is a designated yakuza group and Yamaguchi Prefecture's largest, with an estimated 60 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, the Kagotora-gumi. The Goda-gumi was renamed the Goda-ikka in 1968.[3] It was registered as a designated yakuza group under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law in July 1992.[4]

Kanji Nukui became its six-generation president in 1994. In October 2009, following his retirement, Makoto Suehiro became the seventh-generation president.[5]

Description

Shimonoseki

Based in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, the Goda-ikka has known offices in two other prefectures.[6]

It is the largest yakuza group in Yamaguchi Prefecture, followed by the Yamaguchi-gumi. As of 2008, about 64% of yakuza members in Yamaguchi Prefecture belong to the Goda-ikka.[7]

Since 1996, the Goda-ikka has been a member of an anti-Yamaguchi federation, 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.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Police of Japan 2011, Criminal Investigation : 2. Fight Against Organized Crime" Archived August 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, December 2009, National Police Agency
  2. ^ National Police Agency(in Japanese) (2020-04-02). 令和元年における組織犯罪の情勢【確定値版 (PDF) (Report). pp. 7–40. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  3. ^ "1993 Police White Paper Chapter 1 : The Actual Condition of the Boryokudan", 1993, National Police Agency (in Japanese)
  4. ^ "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)
  5. ^ "The 7th President announces the succession, The Goda-ikka, The Prefectural Police on red alert" Archived 2011-10-08 at the Wayback Machine, 21 October 2009, Yamaguchi Shimbun (in Japanese)
  6. ^ "2010 Police White Paper Chapter 2 : Furtherance of Organized Crime Countermeasures", 2010, National Police Agency (in Japanese)
  7. ^ "2008's First Shunan City Police Department Conference Proceedings"[permanent dead link‍], 2008, Yamaguchi Prefectural Police (in Japanese)
  8. ^ "The Fourth Kyosei-kai", 20 February 2008, Matsue Joho Center (in Japanese)