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Kyokuto-kai

Japanese criminal organisation

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6452031 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Kyokuto-kai (極東会, Kyokutō-kai) is a yakuza organization based in Tokyo, Japan.

History

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

Condition

In the early 2000s, the Kyokuto-kai was involved in a feud with the rival Matsuba-kai, which led to a number of shootings.

Editorial summary

“Kyokuto-kai” enters the record as japanese criminal organisation. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kyokuto-kai, Japanese and criminal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kyokuto-kai, Japanese and criminal.
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“Kyokuto-kai” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kyokuto-kai, Japanese and criminal provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6452031. Authority coordinates are 35.697, 139.705. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kyokuto-kai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.