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On a sad note, the post opens with a mention of the demise of Kongo Gumi founded in 578.

And sad to see that Kongo Gumi - a Japanese construction compnay - shut down in 2006, after being founded in 578 CE.

Can you still you a gumi bear to fool a fingerprint reader?

Kongo gumi still continued operating even though it went through a restructuring, so it's fair to say it's still the oldest company in the world.

Kanto Rengo is known for extremely violent assaults and because they are not a designated organized crime group, they are subject to less restrictions than the Yamaguchi-gumi and other crime groups.

I can't read the founder's mind, but if I were them I would probably have some Kongō Gumi style designs on making it a 1000-year company just because that's a fun intellectual exercise.

On December 14th, 2011, a group of twenty men burst into a Roppongi Cabaret club and assaulted four members affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi Kokusui-kai (山口組国粋会), with beer bottles and blunt weapons, injuring one of them severely.

Yet the bulk of financing in the semiconductor industry always came from state-owned KDB Bank and lent to basically 2 conglomerates and their vendors, and land acquisition was simplified by providing access to land and financing at marginal rates in clusters like Gumi and Yongin.

Its also not uncommon for Yakuza groups like Yamaguchi-gumi to "acquire" a "gang" like Kanto Rengo and turn them into their regional office.

So it depends on what you mean by “they”, the company with the old name Kongo Gumi is no longer in construction, but otherwise the company with the new name Shin Kongo is, as a subsidiary of another conglomerate.

Yakuza or the traditional organized crime groups may not be hackers but they know how to hire them and they are very much interested in "information technology." In 2007, a Yamaguchi-gumi Kodo-kai boss took over Japan's equivalent of classmates.com called Yubitoma in a leveraged buy-out.

The oldest company I can find is Kongo Gumi, founded in 578, a Japanese construction firm.

Wow, I just read the Wikipedia history of Kongo Gumi.

>Kongo Gumi, founded in 578 AD, is recognized as the oldest continuously operating company in the world, specializing in the construction of Buddhist temples.