Background
Inagawa, son of a Meiji University graduate who fell on hard times, never attended school.
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Kakuji Inagawa
Edit Profile稲川 角二 稲川 聖城
Career
He was recruited into the yakuza as an enforcer when he was a teenage judo student. After serving in World World War II, Inagawa formed the Inagawa-gumi, the predecessor to the current Inagawa-kai, in Atami, Shizuoka in 1949. Inagawa was regarded as an "elder statesman" of the yakuza, and a peacemaker skilled in settling disputes between rival gangs.
In the early 1960s, he headed the short-lived Kanto-kai, a federation of Kantō region gangs organized by Yoshio Kodama.
That organization"s rightist philosophy was summed up by Inagawa: "We bakuto cannot walk in broad daylight," he said.
Politics
"But if we unite and form a wall to stop Communism, we can be of service to our nation.".
