Okinawa-Kyokuryū-kai

The Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai (沖縄旭琉会, Okinawa Kyokuryū-kai) is a yakuza criminal organization based on the Okinawa island of Japan.[1] A designated yakuza group[1] with an estimated 300 active members,[2] the Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai is the largest yakuza organization in Okinawa Prefecture.[3]

Daimon of Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai

History
See also: Kyokuryu-kai § History

The Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai was formed in 1990 when it split from Okinawa's main yakuza group, the Kyokuryu-kai. The formation was led by Kiyoshi Tominaga, who became the first president.[4] The Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai, along with the Kyokuryu-kai, was registered as a designated yakuza group under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law in June 1992.[5]

Condition

Headquartered in Naha, Okinawa, the Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai is one of the two designated yakuza groups in Okinawa Prefecture along with its former parent organization, the Kyokuryu-kai.[6] The Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai is the largest yakuza organization in Okinawa Prefecture, followed by the second-largest Kyokuryu-kai and the third-largest Yoshimi-kogyo.[3]

Activities

The Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai's official policy forbids its members from engaging in drug trafficking.[7]

References
  1. "Police of Japan 2011, Criminal Investigation : 2. Fight Against Organized Crime" Archived August 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, December 2009, National Police Agency
  2. National Police Agency(in Japanese) (2020-04-02). 令和元年における組織犯罪の情勢【確定値版 (PDF) (Report). pp. 7–40. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  3. "Boryokudan condition in the prefecture" Archived 2012-06-19 at the Wayback Machine, October 2007, Okinawa Prefectural Conference for the Expulsion of the Boryokudan (in Japanese)
  4. "A phenomenon of boryokudan unification, The third Kyokuryu-kai president changes" Archived March 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, 3 July 2010, Ryukyu Shimpo (in Japanese)
  5. "5 years from the enactment of the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law" Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine, 1 March 1997, Ryukyu Shimpo (in Japanese)
  6. "Boryokudan Situation in 2010", p.27, April 2011, National Police Agency (in Japanese)
  7. "Drug cases, The prefectural police : '40% are related to the boryokudan'" Archived March 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, 29 November 2008, Ryukyu Shimpo (in Japanese)
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