The Tojo-kai was a Japanese yakuza clan which was founded by Makoto Tojo during the 1960s. It first made news headlines on 25 December 1980 when its subsidiary, the Dojima-gumi, massacred 33 Korean gangsters from the Jingweon Mafia in the Kabukicho neighborhood of Tokyo. In 1985, the Tojo-kai's Sasai-gumi massacred several gangsters from the rival Uenoseiwa-kai clan, the Tojo-kai's main rivals. The clan came to prosper during the 1990s and 2000s, but its chairman Masaru Sera (president of the Nikkyo-ren) was assassinated in 2005 shortly after succeeding the retired Takashi Nihara as boss. Kazuma Kiryu was willed the chairman's seat by Sera, but he almost immediately decided to cede power to Shintaro Kazama's close associate Yukio Terada. In February 2006, after Terada proclaimed that his successor would be the captain of the family with the most contributions to the clan, leading to the Majima-gumi, Uematsu-gumi, and Ibuchi-gumi competing for power. Terada was assassinated in December 2006, and Dojima-gumi leader Yayoi Dojima became acting chairwoman as Kazuma attempted to elevate Daigo Dojima to the chairmanship. He officially became the Tojo-kai's sixth chairman in 2007, but he was shot by Joji Kazama in 2009 and fell into a coma, weakening the clan. Osamu Kashiwagi became acting boss, facing a new power struggle between the Hakuho-kai, Hamazaki-gumi, and the Nishikiyama-gumi; Hakuho-kai chairman Yoshitaka Mine became boss after Kashiwagi's death and the demise of the Hamazaki-gumi and Nishikiyama-gumi. Daigo soon made a full recovery, resuming his position as the clan's chairman. In 2010, the Saejima-gumi was formed as a new crew of the Tojo-kai. By 2012, the 30,000-strong Tojo-kai made plans to incorporate other Yakuza organizations across the country, but a government crackdown ensured that almost all of the family's leaders were in prison by 2016. Katsumi Sugai became acting boss, but Daigo was later released from prison. By 2018, the clan's membership had fallen to 25,000, and, by 2019, the combined pressures of a Tokyo police crackdown and a war with the Omi Alliance led to the Tojo Clan disbanding.
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