Saizo Kishimoto

In this Japanese name, the family name is Kishimoto.

Saizō Kishimoto (岸本才三 Kishimoto Saizō, May 15, 1928 – January 17, 2014) was a Japanese gangster.

Born in Kobe, he joined the Japanese Imperial Navy air squadron during World War II. After the war, he became a city employee of the Kobe City Office. In 1955, he joined a clan with Yakuza leader Nakayama Yoshikazu under a branch of the Yamaguchi-gumi. Over the next 40 years, he rose up the ladder in his gang and held the rank of sō-honbuchō, the headquarters chief of the Yamaguchi-gumi.

In late 2005, he was named leader of a more recent Yamaguchi-gumi clan, called the Hanshin-kai. He was also the godfather or kumichō of the Kishimoto-gumi.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Newton, Michael. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GANGSTERS: A Worldwide Guide To Organized Crime, 2007.ISBN 978-1-56858-348-8



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