Kyodo-kai

The Kyodo-kai (侠道会, Kyōdō-kai^?) is a yakuza group based in Hiroshima, Japan. The Kyodo-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 180 active members and 300 semi-active members, and is the second largest yakuza group in the Chugoku region after the Kyosei-kai.

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

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

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.

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