Public uproar! Why did the leader of the Yamaguchi Gumi VI, Shinobu Tsukasa, appear at “Shinagawa Station in the morning”?

Shinobu Tsukasa may appear at Shinagawa Station tomorrow.

It was on March 7 that the editorial department of this magazine caught such information. The next morning, March 8, our photographer went to the Shinkansen ticket gate of JR Shinagawa Station with half a doubt in his mind. The station was crowded with commuters. Around 9:30 a.m., the area around the platform suddenly became noisy.

The leader of the Yamaguchi clan, Shinobu Tsukasa, wearing a black coat, a black hat, sunglasses, and a white scarf appeared.

He was surrounded by several bodyguards, and plainclothes investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department were keeping a close watch on him. There were also investigators with cameras to take pictures of the gang members’ faces to gather information about them. Seeing the group, many commuters asked, “What? They were surprised and looked back several times.

The Tsukasa group passed by bookstores and stores on the Shinagawa station premises, and then walked through the ticket gates to the car porte-cochere.

He got into a parked pick-up car and the car quickly drove away. There were only a few bodyguards and others around the boss, but guards were deployed here and there around the station.

On the day of the funeral, Mr. Tsukasa attended the funeral of the chairman of the secondary organization of the Yamaguchigumi VI in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. The deceased was Kazuhiko Suzuki, chairman of the Kyokudo-kai. He was one of the top executives in charge of Yamaguchigumi VI. Therefore, it is believed that he took the Shinkansen from Nagoya to Shinagawa and left for Hokkaido from Haneda Airport” (reporter from the society department of a national newspaper).

At around 6:30 p.m. on the 8th of the same month, the Tsukasa group leader reappeared at Shinagawa Station. He had just finished attending a funeral in Hokkaido and was probably on his way home, and as he walked through the station grounds accompanied by more than 20 guards and officials, he again caught the attention of the general public.

At the Shinagawa station, he joined the general public in the waiting room, perhaps because he had some time before his scheduled train. Occasionally, they were happily chatting with the people concerned, but even so, bodyguards were always on guard around them at the entrances and exits of the waiting room.

When he got off the train on the platform, he seemed relaxed, chatting and laughing with the officials. After getting into the green car of the Shinkansen, he raised his right hand to the photographer of this magazine.

Earlier this year, it was reported that Seiji Takayama would succeed as the 7th head of the clan on January 25, which would be Tsukasa’s 80th birthday. As a result, it was a false rumor, but such information warfare always happens as the Yamaguchigumi split war continues. I think that the reason why the head of the Tsukasa clan went out of his way to show himself this time was to appeal that he is still alive and well and that there is room for him.

It has been a little more than six years since the start of the divisive war. The way out is still not in sight.