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Yoshiharu Ueno

Yoshiharu Ueno was a Japanese yakuza and the boss of the Uenoseiwa-kai during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Yoshiharu Ueno was born in Tokyo, Japan, and he founded the Uenoseiwa-kai yakuza organization, which soon grew into the powerful Tojo-kai's equal. The two organizations sporadically battled for control of Kabukicho throughout the 1980s, and Ueno was imprisoned from 1983 to 1985. On his release, Ueno was taken to a ramen shop by 19 of his officers, but their celebratory meal was interrupted when the Tojo Clan hitman Taiga Saejima blasted the men with (unbeknownst to him, rubber) bullets. Isao Katsuragi draped his body over Ueno in an apparent self-sacrifice before the two men were shot, after which Saejima left the restaurant and surrendered to police. While Ueno was still unconscious, Katsuragi used a real gun to finish off the other yakuza, and he then returned to covering Ueno, who awoke to see his lone surviving officer apparently guarding him. A grateful Ueno made Katsuragi his captain, and Katsuragi became the de facto leader of the Ueno Seiwa by the 2000s after Ueno came to be elderly and confined to bed.

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