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    The Sumiyoshi-kai (住吉会), sometimes referred to as the Sumiyoshi-rengo (住吉連合, Sumiyoshi-rengō, "Sumiyoshi Union"), is the second-largest yakuza group in...
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  • High Court held the head of Sumiyoshi-kai liable for a tokushu sagi (特殊詐欺, special fraud) committed by members of Sumiyoshi-kai under the employer liability...
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  • The Sumiyoshi-ikka (住吉一家 "Sumiyoshi Family") is an affiliate of the Sumiyoshi-kai yakuza syndicate, based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by a local Bakuto...
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    Matsuba-kai is a member of a yakuza fraternal federation named the Kantō Hatsuka-kai, along with four other Kantō-based yakuza syndicates, the Sumiyoshi-kai,...
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    those from the Sumiyoshi-kai, Inagawa-kai, Soai-kai, Matsuba-kai, Kyokuto-kai, Aizukotetsu-kai, Sakaume-gumi, Azuma-gumi, Asano-gumi, Kyodo-kai, Goda-ikka...
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    Toa-kai is a member of a bakuto fraternal federation named the Kanto Hatsuka-kai, along with four other Kanto-based yakuza syndicates, the Sumiyoshi-kai,...
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  • members. "Yamabishi" (山菱) Sumiyoshi-kai (住吉会) The Sumiyoshi-kai is the second-largest yakuza family, with 4,200 members. Sumiyoshi-kai is a confederation of...
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  • Shinwa-kai (親和会 "Brotherhood Association") in the Sumiyoshi-ikka, is a yakuza gang based in Tochigi-shi, Tochigi, Japan. It is affiliated with the Sumiyoshi-kai...
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  • federation of Tokyo-based yakuza groups including the Inagawa-kai and the Sumiyoshi-kai. Shinoda is the first Yamaguchi-gumi kumicho not to hail from...
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  • Ni-daime Kodo-kai 二代目弘道会 Ni-daime Takumi-gumi 二代目宅見組 Go-daime Kokusui-kai 五代目國粹会 Inagawa-kai 稲川会 Sumiyoshi-kai 住吉会 Sumiyoshi-ikka Shinwa-kai 住吉一家親和会 Kansuke...
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  • (disambiguation), the equivalent in CJKV Minato-kai, original name of the Japanese crime syndicate Sumiyoshi-kai This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • paid up to ¥80 million to the subsequently arrested Kikuo Kondo of the Sumiyoshi-kai. The Tokyo Electric Power Company Meiji Seika "Organized Crime Situation...
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  • retaliations between Kokusui-kai and a rival gang, Sumiyoshi-kai, over gang territory, including the shooting death of Sumiyoshi-kai's boss. The shootings ended...
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    Kai-Sumiyoshi Station (甲斐住吉駅, Kai-Sumiyoshi-eki) is a train station on the Minobu Line of Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) located in city of...
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  • used his business as a money laundering front for the yakuza syndicate Sumiyoshi-kai. Obara was a drug user who was reported to have a fetish for white women...
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  • Inagawa-kai 稲川会 Yon-daime Yamakawa-ikka 四代目山川一家 Ju-daime Yokosuka-ikka 十代目横須賀一家 Juni-daime Koganei-ikka 十二代目小金井一家 Sumiyoshi-kai 住吉会 Sumiyoshi-ikka Shichi-daime...
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    dominating yakuza syndicates in Chiba Prefecture, along with the Sumiyoshi-kai and the Inagawa-kai. Chiaki, Singer Neko Hiroshi, Marathon Runner Katsushige Kawashima...
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    Shinwa-kai is one of the four designated yakuza syndicates active in Kagawa Prefecture, along with the Yamaguchi-gumi, the Sumiyoshi-kai, and the Kyodo-kai....
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    dominating yakuza groups in Chiba Prefecture, along with the Sumiyoshi-kai and the Inagawa-kai. "Police of Japan 2011, Criminal Investigation : 2. Fight...
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    become known as the Kanto-kai. The organization was formed of seven yakuza groups (including the Sumiyoshi-kai and Matsuba-kai), with the purpose of fostering...
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    altercation with Katsushi Murata, a member of the Sumiyoshi-ikka, a sub branch of the Sumiyoshi-kai yakuza family. Rikidōzan alleged that Murata stepped...
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    organizations. In 1990, three large syndicates (Yamaguchi-gumi, Sumiyoshi-kai, Inagawa-kai) dominated organized crime in the nation and controlled more than...
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  • other segments of the population. A former member of the yakuza group Sumiyoshi-kai estimated there are a few hundred Korean yakuza, and that some of them...
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    emissaries to support the plan, meeting with the heads of the Kensei-kai, the Sumiyoshi-kai, and tekiya organizations. These were grouped under the All Japan...
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  • led by Nihon Seinensha, a right-wing organization affiliated with the Sumiyoshi-kai, and wooden hokora were also constructed. When the shrine was founded...
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    was the victim of an attempted extortion by gangsters, linked to the Sumiyoshi-kai crime syndicate. The gangsters were all arrested, and Kyokushūzan told...
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    (Federation of Japanese Youth), a movement attached to the major Yakuza group Sumiyoshi-kai, built a lighthouse on the northernmost Senkaku island. Administratively...
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    The Dojin-kai (道仁会, Dōjin-kai) is a yakuza organization headquartered in Kurume, Fukuoka, on the Kyushu island of Japan, a designated yakuza syndicate...
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    2012 the 33-year-old Makoto Owada, a high-ranking gang-member of the Sumiyoshi-kai yakuza group was arrested. Workers supplied by a network of companies...
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  • into the Higashi Nakano wing of Tokyo’s largest criminal gang, the Sumiyoshi-kai, where he became an “informal advisor.” He worked for Encyclopædia Britannica...
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