Kyodo-kai

The Kyodo-kai (侠道会, Kyōdō-kai) is a yakuza group based in Hiroshima, Japan.

[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.

[4] The Kyodo-kai was registered as a designated yakuza group under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law in 1993.

[5] Based in Onomichi, Hiroshima, the Kyodo-kai has its known offices in five other prefectures including Okayama and Kagawa.

[3] Since 1996, the Kyodo-kai has been a member of an anti-Yamaguchi federation named the Gosha-kai, along with three other Chugoku-based organizations, the Kyosei-kai, the Asano-gumi, the Goda-ikka, and the Shikoku-based Shinwa-kai.