We in KNF have very little to do sadly. Unlawfuls are a rare sight and are not interested in doing piracy.
We've been patrolling the area during years, most of the time role-playing between ourselves or with NPCs. Needless to say it gets quickly old and if there is no perceived good reasons to log, people will just not.
Sadly, KNF cannot be the only one to do some efforts. For example it's just sad we are forced to raid Chugoku in order to have the good fortune to interact with BD. In the same manner, instead of having one BD| member using an alt to sneakily move goods to Chugoku, and resulting in massive meta-gaming from both side, this could have been used to make events bringing some activity for several factions.
I don't know... If factions leaders actually bothered to agree to work together, perhaps by agreeing on a "Let's be all active at the same time" window on week ends, for example, things wouldn't be so awkward.
Factions leaders could also agree to make events regularly, with some rotation, like BD| in January, GC| in February, KNF in March, etc...
That may sound rude but if you are giving no incentive for your members to log, and are unwilling to cooperate with others, then you are just awful factions leaders. Just waiting for others to do something and do the very minimum to get above the 1 day activity is the reason Kusari is such a bare place. Not the pretended OP ships, not the house design.