''The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi Complete Databook 2008 Edition'' : "Tadashi Irie (Takumi-gumi)", December 2008, Mediax, is a yakuza, the head (''kumicho'') of the Osaka-based 2nd

Takumi-gumi The Second Takumi-gumi is a Japanese yakuza gang affiliated with the powerful Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate. The Kansai-based gang was founded in 1967 by Masaru Takumi, the longtime second-in-command (''wakagashira'') and financial oversteer of the Y ...

"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

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 The Nakano-kai (中野会) was a notorious Osaka-based yakuza gang, founded by Nakano Taro, Taro Nakano (born October 30, 1936 in Oita Prefecture, Oita) in the years after World War II, World War 2. The Nakano-kai was known for its fierce bellicos ...

, 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'' retaliating ruthlessly against the Nakano-kai. He entered the

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

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 attained the de facto number-three position (''so-honbucho''). 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 —, 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. 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. 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.

After moving to Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi

On August 27, 2015, he left the sixth-generation Yamaguchi-gumi and formed a new organization, the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, with more than a dozen members, including Kunio Inoue (assistant to the sixth-generation Yamaguchi-gumi Wakatou and fourth-generation Yama-kengumi) and Osamu Teraoka (the younger brother of the Yamaguchi-gumi and president of the Toyukai). Irie becomes the vice-president. On the same date, he was insulated from the sixth generation Yamaguchi-gumi.

References

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