Nishikiyama-gumi

The Nishikiyama-gumi was a subsidiary of the Tojo-kai yakuza organization in Japan, founded in 1996 by Akira Nishikiyama as a branch of the Kazama-gumi. The family was originally supposed to be given to Kazuma Kiryu, but, after Kazuma took the fall for the assassination of Dojima-gumi patriarch Sohei Dojima in 1995, the family went to Nishikiyama instead. In 2000, the Nishikiyama-gumi split from the Kazama-gumi and became an independent group within the Tojo-kai, and it became one of the largest families within the Tojo-kai by 2005, rivaled only by the Kazama-gumi and the Shimano-gumi. In December 2005, the Nishikiyama-gumi instigated a civil war within the Tojo-kai by stealing the Tojo-kai's 10 billion yen reserves from the Toto Bank, hoping to use the money to propel Nishikiyama to the Tojo-kai's chairmanship. After Nishikiyama's money launderer, Ministry Bureau of Investigation chief Kyohei Jingu, decided to keep the laundered 10 billion yen for himself and his new ally, the Goryu-kai, Nishikiyama sacrificed himself by killing Jingu in a suicide bombing atop the Millenium Tower. His captain Koji Shindo became the family's new patriarch, and, following the 2006 dissolution of the Shimano-gumi, the Nishikiyama-gumi absorbed its remaining members. Shindo conspired with the Omi Alliance to betray the Tojo-kai during the great war of 2006, seizing control of the Tojo-kai as the Sengoku-gumi invaded Tokyo. However, Kazuma Kiryu and Daigo Dojima killed Shindo at the Tojo-kai headquarters, and Tsuyoshi Kanda took charge of the Nishikiyama-gumi. The Nishikiyama-gumi expanded into the Kabukicho district in 2009, but Kanda was murdered by Yoshitaka Mine before he could seize control of the Tojo-kai. Kanda's death led to the Nishikiyama-gumi's dissolution.