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Answer for the clue "A Japanese supervisor ", 6 letters:
oyabun

Word definitions for oyabun in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a Japanese supervisor

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The ''Father''. The absolute leader in a Yakuza clan. He has an advisor called a Saiko-komon. Besides that he has an army of advocates, accountants, secretaries and advisors.

Usage examples of oyabun.

He took with him more than a dozen men, all of them armed, who swarmed through the o-furo with the thorough determination of carpenter ants before the oyabun set foot inside the bathhouse.

Everyone whom he summoned over that time - the underbosses of his family, as well as the oyabun of the other Tokyo families - was obliged to pass it on their way to meet with him.