Saizo Kishimoto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Godfather or kumicho of the Kishimoto-gumi
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Place of Birth: Kōbe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
About Saizo Kishimoto
- Saizo Kishimoto (????, Kishimoto Saizo, 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 so-honbucho, 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 kumicho of the Kishimoto-gumi.
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