Goto-gumi

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The Goto-gumi (後藤組) is a Japanese yakuza gang now active in Tokyo.

The gang was originally formed in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, but moved its activities east in 1991 when it merged with a gang in Hachioji, Tokyo.

The Goto-gumi, as an affiliate of Japan's largest yakuza organization, the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi, was seen as a vanguard for Yamaguchi expansion into the Kanto region.

The gang achieved notoriety the following year, when five of its members assaulted and seriously injured Japanese filmmaker Juzo Itami. The attack was in retaliation for Itami's negative portrayal of the yakuza in his film Minbo no Onna.

The current head of the Goto-gumi is Tadamasa Goto, born 1942.