Kazuo Taoka (田岡 一雄, Taoka Kazuo, March 28, 1913 – July 23, 1981) was one of the most prominent yakuza godfathers. Known as the "Godfather of Godfathers"...

Poavosa and the extinct Taokas, were separated by Papora and Pazeh. The first commercial publication to be written in Taokas is the picture book Osubalaki...

Taiwan. The Taokas were located in the areas around today's Hsinchu City/Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, and Taichung City region. Several Taokas groups have...

Hisao Taoka from the University of Fukui, Japan was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for contributions...

cultural activities in 1994 and 1996. Moreover, the descendants of Siraya, Taokas, and Pazeh have also tried to re-establish and pass on their traditions...

(1946–1981): Kazuo Taoka When Taoka inherited the title of kumichō, it was merely a local family with only a few dozen members. It was Taoka who made Yamaguchi-gumi...

The Indigo is a Japanese band originally composed of Miki Taoka (田岡 美樹, Taoka Miki) on vocals, Yuichi Ichikawa (市川 裕一, Ichikawa Yūichi) on composition...

Cheng-gong's forces following widespread resistance by Papora, Babuza, Taokas and Pazeh speaking peoples of the central plain. Jolin Tsai (born 1980)...

Atayalic languages, the Western Plains languages (Papora, Hoanya, Babuza, and Taokas), and the Northwest Formosan languages (Pazeh and Saisiyat; Li places Western...

Yamaguchi. He ruled until 1942, and was succeeded in 1946 by his protégé, Kazuo Taoka. "From Father to Son: Noboru Yamaguchi, the Second Leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi"...

arrival of the Han Chinese, the Hsinchu area was home to the indigenous Taokas, Saisiyat, and Atayal. After the Spanish occupied northern Taiwan, Catholic...

Basay Hoanya (Arikun/Lloa) Ketagalan Luilang Pazeh/Kaxabu Papora Qauqaut Taokas Trobiawan Related topics Plains indigenous peoples List of indigenous peoples...

some Formosan languages, such as Pazeh, Saisiat, Luilang, Favorlang and Taokas; numerals cognate with Proto-Malayo-Polynesian 6–10 are found in Amis, Basay...

ceremony in which Fumiko, the widow of former Yamaguchi-gumi leader Kazuo Taoka, handed him a dagger. However, Takenaka was assassinated at a girlfriend's...

its tourism department. The area around Hsinchu City was inhabited by the Taokas aborigines[citation needed] when the Spanish occupied northern Taiwan in...

for a weekly basketball magazine. Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka Moichi Taoka (田岡 茂一, Taoka Moichi) is Ryonan's coach and a contemporary of Kainan's Riki Takato...

dialects Central Western Plains Babuza language; old Favorlang language: Taokas and Poavosa dialects Papora-Hoanya language: Papora, Hoanya dialects   Northwest...

Hakka syllables, 貓貍, which phonetically approximate Pali (Bari) from the Taokas language. Miaoli Hsien was at first eliminated under Japanese rule. Bioritsu...

language revitalization movements are going on Basay to the north, Babuza-Taokas in the most populated western plains, and Pazeh bordering it in the center...

Teruo Ishii Golgo 13 Golgo 13 Junya Sato Yamaguchi-gumi Sandaime Kazuo Taoka Kōichi Saitō 1974 San-daime Shumei Unknown Shigehiro Ozawa The Homeless...

1985 to 1989, between the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Ichiwa-kai gangs. Kazuo Taoka was the third boss of the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi, who made the family...

University Press. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-19-856878-0. Kawarada, Y; Das, BC; Taoka, H (2000). "Anatomy of the hepatic hilar area: the plate system". Journal...

which saw the Taokas tribe take up arms against the Qing authorities following a series of issues with the corvee labor policy. The Taokas swept southward...

Taonga or taoka (in South Island Māori) is a Māori-language word that refers to a treasured possession in Māori culture. It lacks a direct translation...

Shūichirō Hase (長谷周一郎) Izo Hashimoto (橋本 以蔵) 1991 Strawberry Road (ストロベリーロード) Taoka (田岡) Koreyoshi Kurahara (蔵原惟繕) Journey of Honor (兜 KABUTO) Ieyasu Tokugawa...

originally envisioned a Japan-wide gangster society, but in 1963 Kazuo Taoka and his Kansai-based Yamaguchi-gumi gang refused to join, leaving Kodama...

breakaway Ichiwa-kai faction that began over the death of kumicho Kazuo Taoka. After being passed over as kumicho, Hiroshi Yamamoto broke away from the...

title ane-san (姐さん, older sister). When the 3rd Yamaguchi-gumi boss (Kazuo Taoka) died in the early 1980s, his wife (Fumiko) took over as boss of Yamaguchi-gumi...

as Eiji Oku Ryosuke Yamamoto as Mikinori Taira Minori Hagiwara as Yumi Taoka Sasuke Otsuru as Yukio Sanada Naoto Takahashi as Kotaro Maeda Nijiro Murakami...

Dunedin's main research library, the Hocken Collections, has the name Uare Taoka o Hākena rather than the northern (standard) Te Whare Taonga o Hākena. Maarire...