Tadashi Irie
{{Infobox criminal
| name = Tadashi Irie
| native_name = 入江 禎
| native_name_lang = ja
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|12|09}}
| birth_place = Uwajima, Ehime
| occupation = Yakuza
| organization = Takumi-gumi
Yamaguchi-gumi
}}
{{Nihongo|Tadashi Irie|入江 禎|Irie Tadashi|born December 9, 1944 in Uwajima, Ehime}}The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi Complete Databook 2008 Edition : "Tadashi Irie (Takumi-gumi)", December 2008, Mediax, {{ISBN|4-86201-358-9}} is a yakuza, the head (kumicho) of the Osaka-based 2nd Takumi-gumi[http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201012100378.html "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 Takumi-gumi 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, he succeeded as the head of the Takumi-gumi,[https://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2010/12/01/osaka-police-nab-another-yakuza-boss-as-crackdown-continues/ "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 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).[http://cnb.chuohjournal.jp/2669.php "Into the Yamaguchi-gumi's 'total domination' of the underworld"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326192409/http://cnb.chuohjournal.jp/2669.php |date=2012-03-26 }}, September 10, 2008, Monthly Central Journal, Central News Bank {{in lang|ja}}
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[http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/dawn-raid-on-japanese-syndicate/story-fn6ck55c-1225964211718 "Dawn raid on Japanese syndicate"], December 1, 2010, The Courier-Mail —, 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[http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/110228/trl11022813330001-n1.htm "Takumi-gumi kumicho receives a 10 months jail sentence after confessing to charges"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411075459/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/110228/trl11022813330001-n1.htm |date=2011-04-11 }}, February 28, 2011, Sankei Shimbun {{in lang|ja}}) who had been jailed for murdering a senior member of the Nakano-kai.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101208162045/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j1n-TaSJ6Gl5_4ikwhQroSbM4x_g?docId=CNG.a2677b1c0c474400e7eb1a3efbf03eb4.131 "Japan's No. 3 gangster arrested in police war on underworld"], December 1, 2010, AFP 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.[http://www.asahi.com/national/jiji/JJT201012010160.html "200,000 yen per month to a member in prison – the arrested Yamaguchi-gumi number-three"], December 1, 2010. Asahi Shimbun {{in lang|ja}} He was released on bail on December 24 of that year,[http://mainichi.jp/iPhone/select/news/20101225k0000e040025000c.html "Yamaguchi-gumi : Kumicho of the Takumi-gumi, who compensated a hitman's family, is released"], December 25, 2010, Mainichi Shimbun {{in lang|ja}} 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.
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