Kyodo-kai
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The Kyodo-kai (侠道会, Kyōdō-kai) is a yakuza group based in Hiroshima, Japan.[1] The Kyodo-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 60 active members.[2] and is the second largest yakuza group in the Chugoku region after the Kyosei-kai.[3]
The Kyodo-kai was formed immediately after the World War II as a bakuto organization named the Takahashi-gumi (高橋組) in Onomichi, Hiroshima by Tokujiro Takahashi. Kokichi Morita, then the highest-ranked senior member of the Takahashi-gumi, formed the Kyodo-kai in January 1969 following the Takahashi-gumi's disbanding. Kokichi Morita's younger brother Kazuo Morita succeeded as president in November 1989.[4] The Kyodo-kai was registered as a designated yakuza group under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law in 1993.[5]
