Kizuna-kai

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Kizuna-kai
FoundedApril 30, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-04-30)
FounderYoshinori Oda (Kim Jong-ki)[1]
Founding locationAmagasaki, Hyogo, Japan
Years active2017–present
Membership60 members[1]
110 quasi-members[1]
Leader(s)Yoshinori Oda
AlliesIkeda-gumi
RivalsYamaguchi-gumi
Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi

The Kizuna-kai (絆會) is a yakuza organization based in Hyogo, Japan.

It was originally formed on April 30, 2017 by some direct members of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, which in turn was split from the Yamaguchi-gumi. Initially, they called themselves Ninkyo-dantai-Yamaguchi-gumi,[2] a nincho organization using the kanji character for personal names, 俠. Thereafter, on August 9, the name was changed to Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi, using the slang word kyo for the reasons described below. Furthermore, on January 12, 2020, the name was changed to the current name, removing the name Yamaguchi-gumi.[3]

History[edit]

Formation[edit]

The Yamaguchi-gumi, a designated organized crime group, split in the summer of 2015, and some members formed the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. However, on April 30, 2017, some members of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi rebelled and formed the Ninkyo-dantai-Yamaguchi-gumi. As a result, the organized crime group that originated from the Yamaguchi-gumi was split into three factions.

At the founding ceremony on April 30, 2017, the organization did not have a nominal chief, but instead the fourth generation Yamaken-gumi vice-chairman (Headquarters), the core organization of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate. The organization is headed by Yosinori Oda[a] and the number-two (wakagashira) at the time was Koji Ikeda.[b] It has been pointed out that the Ninkyo-dantai-Yamaguchi-gumi has an organizational form that avoids violence and the law, but the police authorities are in a state of internal conflict rather than division. The organization has been subjected to regulations under the anti-bouto law.[5] Furthermore, on May 7, Ikeda and others attended the formation ceremony of the Keiji Union, which had split from the 6th generation Yamaguchi-gumi-affiliated Tankai-ikka, and it is believed that this group also joined the Ninkyo-dantai-Yamaguchi-gumi.[6]

On August 9, the organization's name was changed to Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi. The main reason for the name change is that when news organizations reported on the old organization name, the Ninkyo-dantai-Yamaguchi-gumi, was not correctly written in the media. It is said that this was due to growing dissatisfaction from both inside and outside the country due to its poor appearance.[7][8]

Road to designation[edit]

On September 12, 2017, an armed group shot at a convoy carrying representative Oda and others on a street in Nagata-ku, Kobe. Oda lived near the scene and was attacked by men waiting for him immediately after leaving his home. The vehicle he was riding in drove away from the scene, and Oda was not injured, but one member of the gang (44 years old at the time), who was his bodyguard, was shot and killed.[9] On March 22, 2018, the Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi was designated as a designated bōryokudan by the Hyogo Prefecture Public Safety Commission.[10] In September of the same year, the Kobe District Court approved an application for a provisional injunction to prohibit the use of the Yondaime Manabe-gumi office, which was also used as the Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi's headquarters office.[11]

On February 17, 2020, the Hyogo Prefectural Public Safety Commission announced in the official gazette that the name of the organization had been changed to Kizuna-kai. The reason for the name change appears to be to clarify the difference between the Yamaguchi-gumi, which is designated as a designated organized crime group, and the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. On August 11, Koji Ikeda, who had become a young leader, submitted a notification of dissolution of the 4th generation Manabe-gumi to the Amagasaki police station, the group was disbanded, and Ikeda visited the 6th Yamaguchi-gumi headquarters the following month, apologized, and officially retired. In late February 2022, the third generation Oda Kogyo chairman, Satoshi Gondo, who was the top executive, submitted a notice of withdrawal to the Osaka Prefectural Police and was expelled from Kizuna-kai on March 2.[12]

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Oda was 50 years old at the time. He was the acting Wakagashira of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi.[4]
  2. ^ Ikeda was 50 years old at the time and a junior assistant in the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Organized Crime Situation 2023" (PDF). National Police Agency. pp. 3, 26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2024. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  2. ^ "神戸山口組・分裂　新組織は「任侠団体山口組」]". mainichi.jp. 1 May 2017.
  3. ^ "指定暴力団 任侠山口組が「絆會」へ名称変更 "山口組"外す". NHK. 12 January 2020. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b 尾島正洋 (29 January 2022). "《もうひとつの分裂騒動》「神戸はヤクザの社会で最も大事な"盃"をないがしろにして出て行ったが…」　90人に減少した"第3の山口組"絆会の行方は…？". 文春オンライン. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  5. ^ "【山口組再分裂】新組織は「組長空席」「平等、支え合い」標榜　暴力団指定免れる形態に？". Sankei Shimbun. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  6. ^ "「任侠団体山口組」結成１週間、６代目山口組にも異変　直系から組員離脱「京滋連合」誕生". zakzak. 9 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  7. ^ "神戸山口組離脱の勢力、組織名を「任侠山口組」に変更　旧字体表記されず不満か". Sankei Shimbun. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  8. ^ "ネット表記に不満？ 「任侠山口組」に組織名変更". 神戸新聞. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  9. ^ "溝口敦氏特別リポート 「任侠山口組」織田代表襲撃の内幕か". Nikkan Gendai. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  10. ^ "任侠山口組が指定暴力団に　官報で公示". 神戸新聞. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  11. ^ "絆会本部の真鍋組事務所　年内にも更地化の見通し". 神戸新聞. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  12. ^ "絆會の最高幹部が突然の"引退表明"！ナンバー2「指名手配」の渦中で". 週刊実話Web. 13 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
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