Saizo Kishimoto
Introduction  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 ''sō-honbuchō'', 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 ''kumichō'' of the Kishimoto-gumi.
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