In point of fact, it is better that the leader or "oyabun" should not be a man of genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Japanese—Still Unknown] Reference

So Koei was the daughter of another Yakuza oyabun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

The last oyabun Okami summoned was Seize Yamauchi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

"The oyabun has spoken and so has chosen his path.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

This was Tomoo Kozo, the oyabun of the Yamauchi clan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

He had been oyabun of the Shikei clan for many years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

He's oyabun of the Yamauchi clan and he fears my power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

The Kaisho is purported to be the oyabun of all oyabun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

This is how Mikio Okami became oyabun of the Okami clan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

They stopped short, stood staring at their fallen oyabun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

And to discover the traitor among my most trusted oyabun. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

We oyabun have always ironed out our differences at council. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

"I won't be staying," Tanaka Gin said, walking past the oyabun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

Ushiba went to see Tetsuo Akinaga, the oyabun of the Shikei clan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

He knelt beside the oyabun, put his hand to the side of his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

Soon he would have to confront Tachi, the Yakuza oyabun, the tanjian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

Okami was the Kaisho'the head of all the Yakuza clan heads, the oyabun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

'You may have fooled the other oyabun of the inner council, but not me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

"Do you know she was involved with a Yakuza oyabun named Tachi Shidare?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

Ushiba was abruptly weary of the constant infighting between these oyabun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

"But this happened last winter, before Tachi became oyabun of the Yamauchi.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

And, after all, some of the Colonel's closest friends had been Yakuza oyabun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

"Nicholas Linnear, this is Tachi Shidare, the new oyabun of the Yamauchi clan.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

Leonforte has a deal with another oyabun and I should have known about it by now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

A Yakuza oyabun named Mikio Okami knows more about our operation than is healthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

Except that Akira Chosa, another of the Yakuza oyabun, told me much the same thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Skin]

'Some of the oyabun are weaker than others, and there are sub-alliances based on giri.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

When an alliance with another, older oyabun was offered, he took it, no questions asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

There may even be talk among the oyabun about intervening in their own self-serving way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

No, I believe there is one oyabun persuading the others that Okami-san must be destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

That was a dangerous path; he knew part of him was still thinking as the other oyabun did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

"Yes, well, you know far more about the Yakuza than any of my fellow oyabun would believe.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

'On the contrary,' he said, 'I know at least something of the private b'ves of the oyabun.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

These oyabun feel terribly threatened by my plan to bring them within the scope of the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

'It seems logical, then, that this oyabun is the one controlling the Godaishu, Okami's nemesis.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

Six hours later, she died on the operating table and I went before my oyabun, certain of my fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

By the size and quality of his retinue of kobun'toot soldiers-he was something less than an oyabun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

Not co-incidentally, these were also the oyabun who had helped build the Godaisbu with Mikio Okami.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]