Noboru Yamaguchi (yakuza)

Noboru Yamaguchi (山口 登, Yamaguchi Noboru, Japanese: [jamaɡɯt͡ɕi noboɾɯ]) was the second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang in Japan.^[1]

Noboru Yamaguchi
Born	1902 Nada-ku, Kobe, Japan
Died	October 4, 1942

He assumed control of the gang in 1925 from his father, the gang's founder, Harukichi Yamaguchi.^[2] He ruled until 1942, and was succeeded in 1946 by his protégé, Kazuo Taoka.^[3][4]