Kyokuryu-kai

The Kyokuryu-kai (旭琉会, Kyokuryū-kai^?) is a yakuza criminal organization based on the Okinawa island of Japan, with an estimated membership of 210–270.

Headquartered in Naha, Okinawa, the Kyokuryu-kai is one of the two designated yakuza groups in Okinawa Prefecture along with its splinter group Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai, and had been Okinawa's largest organized crime group since 1983 until 1990 when the Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai broke away.

The Kyokuryu-kai was formed in 1970 as the Okinawa-rengo Kyokuryu-kai (沖縄連合旭琉会, Okinawa-rengō Kyokuryū-kai^?, lit. "Okinawa-Union Kyokuryu-Group") by two gang groups, the Naha Clan and the Koza Clan. These two gang groups were practically not "yakuza" groups descended from the yakuza tradition (Okinawa was originally not part of Japan's territory) but were just a bunch of primitive bandits whose activities consisted of mugging United States military servicemen and smuggling valuables from nearby wealthier places such as Taiwan and Hong Kong [1], and they had originally opposed each other until that merger. They formed the union in the year of 1970, shortly before the return of Okinawa to Japan, with the alleged purpose of preventing yakuza's invasion from the mainland.

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