# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshinori-watanabe
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:03:59.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshinori-watanabe"
name: "Yoshinori Watanabe"
slug: "yoshinori-watanabe"
description: "Yoshinori Watanabe  was a yakuza, the fifth kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization. He became kumicho in 1989. He was known for a more low-key approach than his predecessors, partly due to an anti-gang law passed in 1992. He retired in 2005."
tagline: "Japanese mob boss (1941-2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1941-01-08"
deathDate: "2012-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.068102666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E8%BE%BA%E8%8A%B3%E5%89%87"
    title: "渡辺芳則"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Watanabe"
    title: "Yoshinori Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Watanabe"
    title: "Yoshinori Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E9%82%8A%E8%8A%B3%E5%89%87"
    title: "渡邊芳則"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Watanabe"
    title: "Yoshinori Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Watanabe_(misdadiger)"
    title: "Yoshinori Watanabe (misdadiger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2658543"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump