January 1, 1949 - Susumu Kajiyama
His notoriety rests less on violence than on financial predation — operating within the orbit of Japan's most powerful criminal syndicate while exploiting legal gray areas in the country's lending industry. The "loan shark king" designation reflects a career built on systematic debt entrapment at a scale that drew national attention before his 2003 arrest.
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Susumu Kajiyama (梶山 進, Kajiyama Susumu; born around 1950) is a retired yakuza best known for his arrest in 2003, who was dubbed the "loan shark king". He has been introduced as a senior member of the Shizuoka-based Goryo-kai, a secondary organization of Japan's largest yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, although he was technically not a member of the Goryo-kai.
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