''The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi Complete Databook 2008 Edition'' : "Tadashi Irie (Takumi-gumi)", December 2008, Mediax, is a

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, the head (''kumicho'') of the

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-based 2nd Takumi-gumi"Police anti-gang drive in trouble"
December 11, 2010, ''

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'' and the grand general manager (''so-honbucho'') of the 6th

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. 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

. He later joined the Takumi-gumi in 1978 when Masaru Takumi, then the number-two member (''wakagashira'') of the Fukui-gumi, became an executive

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(''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, he succeeded as the head of the Takumi-gumi,"Osaka Police Nab Another Yakuza Boss as Crackdown Continues"
December 1, 2010, ''

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

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, he attained the de facto number-three position (''so-honbucho''). He has been involved in the

'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"

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—, 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, ''

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'' ) 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, ''

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'' 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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