The Sumiyoshi-ikka (住吉一家 "Sumiyoshi Family") is an affiliate of the Sumiyoshi-kai yakuza syndicate, based in Tokyo, Japan. [1] It was founded by a local Bakuto in the early Meiji era.[2]
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- ^ "Delinquent Groups and Organised Crime - Hiroaki Iwai, 1962". doi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.1962.tb03079.x. S2CID 144625520.
- ^ Edelbacher, Maximilian; Kratcoski, Peter C.; Dobovsek, Bojan (2015-10-15). Corruption, Fraud, Organized Crime, and the Shadow Economy. CRC Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-4822-5532-4.