The Kudo-kai (工藤會, Kudō-kai) is a yakuza group headquartered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan, [2] with an estimated 200 active members. [1]

Oct 11, 2021 · Satoru Nomura, the 74-year-old head of Japan’s infamous Kudo-kai crime syndicate, made news in August when he became the first active yakuza boss to receive a …

Aug 25, 2021 · On Aug. 24, the unprecedented death sentence handed down against the don of the Kudo-kai gang and the life sentence against its second-in-command is the culmination of …

Jul 20, 2022 · The Kudo-kai were the first group of Yakuza in Japan to be designated a 'particularly dangerous gangster organisation' back in 2012, and a strategy to go after the …

Aug 26, 2021 · The Kudo-kai is the largest yakuza mafia in the Kitakyushu area and is famed for its military style approach, using the likes of machine guns and hand grenades in its activities.

Aug 26, 2021 · Every morning, senior members of Kudo-kai, arguably Japan's most violent yakuza gang, would scurry out of a security control room equipped with surveillance monitors …

Jan 19, 2013 · The Kudo-kai were labeled “dangerous” for a one-year period. The extortion of a citizen by a gang member will be met with an immediate arrest. The group has been …

Mar 12, 2024 · Fukuoka (Jiji Press)—A Japanese high court Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling sentencing the head of the Kudo-kai crime syndicate to death over four cases of attacks …

Aug 31, 2024 · Answer: The Kudo-kai, headquartered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, is one of 25 designated criminal syndicates in Japan, and the only one officially labelled as...

The Kudo-kai is a yakuza group headquartered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 200 active members. The Kudo-kai has been a purely independent …