Kenichi Shinoda (篠田 建市 Shinoda Ken'ichi), also known as Shinobu Tsukasa (司 忍 Tsukasa Shinobu, born January 25, 1942) is the sixth and current kumicho (supreme Godfather) of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization with over 40,000 members. In the early 1970s, Shinoda was convicted of murdering a rival gang boss with a katana, and spent 13 years in prison. On December 4, 2005, only four months after being named kumicho, Shinoda began serving a six-year prison sentence for gun possession. His bodyguard was actually carrying the firearm, but Shinoda was declared guilty of 'conspiracy' to carry the firearm. He now runs one of the largest and wealthiest organized crime syndicates in the world from his prison cell.
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