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Isoshi Okabe

Isoshi Okabe (born 1945) was a Japanese yakuza criminal who was affiliated with the Tokyo-based Tojo-kai, and served as the captain of its subsidiary, the Taihei Association, under its patriarch Hiroki Awano during the 1980s.

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Isoshi Okabe was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1945, and he became involved in the Tojo-kai yakuza clan during the 1960s. He went on to become Hiroki Awano's right-hand man as captain of his Taihei Association, a subsidiary of the Tojo-kai's Dojima-gumi's family. On 14 December 1988, he was forced to commit yubitsume after an attempted shakedown of real estate businessman Sojuro Yamanoi fell through due to Tachibana Real Estate's intervention, and, that same night, he, Awano, and several Taihei Association thugs severely beat Tachibana enforcer Jun Oda in retaliation and then confronted Oda and his associate Kazuma Kiryu at the Serena Executive Lounge in Kabukicho. There, Okabe and his thugs took Kiryu outside and attempted to force him to grovel for forgiveness, but Kiryu instead insisted on fighting them, and he beat all of them down.

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