Edge of the Blade: From Veteran to Yamaguchi-gumi Boss

In 2022, after Japan revised its Anti-Boryokudan Law and fully implemented a registration system for gang members, the Yamaguchi-gumi split into the “direct faction,” backing Tanaka Retsu, and the “collateral faction,” controlled by Yamamoto Hiroshi. Their core territories, Tokyo and Yokohama, were infiltrated by the up-and-coming gang known as the Wicked Society. Meanwhile, the collateral faction secretly partnered with the Southeast Asian drug cartel known as the Viper Scorpions, using Yamaguchi-gumi channels to smuggle firearms.