After the events of the first game he chose to retire from the police to live with Saya. Osamu Kashiwagi (柏木 修, Kashiwagi Osamu) is the second in command of the Kazama family; he holds a deep respect for his oyabun Shintaro Kazama. Home; About Us. When Akiyama arrives at the club, Mishima attempts to attack Akiyama after ignoring his warnings, but he is knocked out, and Ihara is forced to fight alone. After Hiroshi Hayashi and his men invade the transformer room, Tsumura attempts to stop Kage finding out Daigo Dojima's location by hacking the computers, but Kaoru Sayama beats him. He then goes into hiding. Haruka Sawamura (Japanese: 澤村 遥, Hepburn: Sawamura Haruka) is a fictional character from Sega's action-adventure game series Yakuza. Shinadas unarmed fighting style is primarily based around clinch-fighting and grappling, making him unique from other playable characters whose fighting styles are more striking-based. Jingu's men shot Date's helicopter and order every witnesses to be killed. During his teenage years, Tatsuo Shinada attended Kamuro West High School, along with Daigo Dojima. He goes to Stardust along with his men to take over the bar. In the ensuing struggle between Kiryu and the impostor, Kazuki is shot and is hospitalized for the rest of the game. 18 of its men were gunned down by a single man. He phones and arranges an interview. He is quickly shot by a mystery man on a speedboat (who turns out to be Hisai). He later appears as Akiyama's final boss on top of the Millennium Tower, where he stops Tanimura from shooting Munakata. Appearance When the two are finally reunited, Katsuragi shoots her and having spoken to her brother one last time and killed Katsuragi, she dies in Taiga's arms. While travelling across Japan recruiting the best swordsmen he met Musashi who joined his army. voiced by George Takei and 1 other. Yuko (錦山 優子, Nishikiyama Yūko) was Nishiki's younger sister raised with him, Kazuma Kiryu and Yumi Sawamura in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage. He reopens the case of the murder at Cafe Alps and, with Kiryu's help, uncovers the true culprit. When Date confesses his feelings towards her she rejects him, fearing that an incident in which her former husband, a police officer, was killed would happen again. During the match between the Gigants and Wyverns, Tatsuo was accused of stealing signs from the rival team as he was able to hit the one ball that helped the Wyverns win and as a result caused a scandal that caused him to be banned from playing professionally and Fujita's resignation. By the end of the story, Shinada begins to mature as a person after learning about the truth of his ban and when Takasugi comes in to pick up the money, he has made an effort to start cleaning up his act as his apartment was much tidier than when he first met Takasugi. The next day, however, while Shinada signs autorgraphs for fans, he is arrested on suspicion of being involved in game fixing and illegal gambling. Vision & Mission; Management; Divisions. With the land in his possession, he plans to create a secret casino for the Triad group. Mine travels to Downtown Ryukyu in Okinawa by plane. Kashiwagi is not seen again until end of Chapter 12, when he arrives with backup to the final confrontation against Futoshi Shimano, ending with the deaths of both Shimano and Kazama. Goda is shot multiple times before finally shooting Takashima in the head. Chasing him down, Shinada demands answers only for him to get crushed by construction debris by Sakai, a former teammate of Shinada. However Takasugi reveals that he knew about the whole thing and wanted to help Shinada get his home-run and pride back. When that doesn't go to plan, he convinces his partner Lau Ka Long and his Triad to invade Kamurocho, though Lau is more than obliged out of revenge against Kiryu. He kidnaps Yasuko, Saejima's sister, in an attempt to lure Taiga to him. Later Daigo is fought and defeated by Kiryu on top of the Millennium Tower. Kazuki is the young owner of Stardust, a popular host club located directly opposite Serena. Unbeknownst to him, Kawara was watching him the entire time. Daigo awakens after Mine's defeat and saves the two from Richardson momentarily. One of the new playable characters who only appears in Yakuza 5.Shinada is an infamous baseball player who only had one at-bat. Tatsuo Shinada. After helping her out, Shinada arrives to meet Milky for the article and enjoys some time with her. She later steals 10 billion yen from the Tojo Clan along with Kazama and Sera, as it is in fact Jingu's money, who has been using the Tojo Clan to make money for him for years. He shoots and kills both Lau Ka Long and Tamashiro. Masaru Sera (世良 勝) is the third chairman of the Tojo Clan. He has a tattoo of a tiger on his back. When Kiryu returns 10 years later, after being let out of prison, the building is empty. In Yakuza 4 she is shown to have become successful, and wants her father to meet her new boyfriend. The Ryudo Family (琉道一家, Ryūdō Ikka) is a small Okinawan bōryokudan headed by Nakahara, featured in Yakuza 3. Secretly, he was a Korean named Yeongmin Ji and a survivor of the Jingweon mafia massacre 25 years before by the Tojo Clan. [17] GamesRadar enjoyed the game mechanics presented towards Ichiban and his allies, making their wait for the game's release worthwhile. The locals are fond of him and refer to him as "Mikio-chan". During the second game Akimoto appears of the roof of Ryugujo, threatening to kill Mizuki. In an attempt to get a free dinner at Ushijima's restaurant, he had learned both Omi and Tojo's delegates have been murdered and they are looking for the guilty party, but Shinada dismisses such concerns until he crosses paths with a stranger who knew about the baseball scandal that had ruined his career. Many characters of the Yakuza series have had their faces modeled and mapped after their Japanese voice actors since the 2008 spinoff Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan!. Armed with nunchaku, he is a fighter in Kamurocho's "Weapon Master GP" underground fighting tournament. By the time he arrives, Shigeki Baba, the one assigned to kill Haruka, had already changed his mind about doing so. Collaborating with Black Monday, he wanted to become the Seventh Chairman of the Tojo Clan to give him a new reason to live to render his grief non-existent. A major antagonist in Yakuza 3, he earned the nickname "Emperor of Hama" (ハマの帝王, Hama no Teiō); "Hama" being short for Yokohama, the family's hometown. Date's boss at the newspaper during Yakuza 3. Prior to this he was a friend of Shintaro Kazama, before his death, and a member of the Kansai-based Omi Alliance. Tanimura attempts to handcuff him but Sugiuchi escapes and the two fight. Despite that there is also a comedic side of him, demonstrated when he steals Baba's camera and mocks Kurosawa with it. A lieutenant of the Shimano family and later head of the Majima Family, Goro Majima (真島 吾朗, Majima Gorō) is an acquaintance of Kiryu with a twisted sense of loyalty. His name was made to stand out within the series as it marks a major change in Yakuza. Several days later, Kasuga wakes up half-naked under a pile of trash and eventually finds out that he is in the Yokohama district of Isezaki Ijincho. He later appears with the three other men (Arai, Kido and Daigo) on top of the Millennium Tower to claim the money. He has a violent and ruthless nature and is known to have killed prisoners during punishment beatings. After kidnapping Yasuko Saejima in order to question her about killing his men, he is killed by Arai on Katsuragi's orders. Actor and comedian Hiroyuki Miyasako, who plays a supporting character in Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, has been suspended by his talent agency due to … She encounters each of the main characters on her search for her brother. Toshiyuki Morikawa is the Japanese voice of Tatsuo Shinada in Yakuza 5. These missions were cut from the overseas releases of Yakuza 3. He headed up all the affiliate families that made up the Tojo Clan. Looks like Shinada's got a potential income source. The first game was originally released on December 8, 2005 on the PlayStation 2. Stabbed to death by Yasuko Saejima by order of Katsuragi, Kanemura's body is discovered with lipstick marks on it by Kido. Jingu explains that Yumi and Haruka are nothing more than a problem for him. Name information He was present at the massacre of the Jingweon 25 years ago, and saved the boss's wife and son. Ryuji Goda appears as a playable character in the zombie spinoff Yakuza: Dead Souls, which follows an alternate story. Due to his near identical looks to those of his dead brother, and Shintaro never having told people of Joji, he is initially presumed to be Shintaro after shooting Daigo and Nakahara. Taiga later fights Kido on top of the Millennium Tower. voiced by Rie Kugimiya. After Saejima is beaten, Hamazaki manages to get in to see him and convinces him to join his escape effort. Haruka Sawamura. He did this in order to avenge the murders of the Jingweon members. With few leads, Tatsuo investigates around Uno who reveal's Tatsuo's involvement in the scandal crippled the Tojo and Omi's rackets in Nagoya and they are forced out of town, more importantly he gives Tatsuo a link to the scandal through Manabe, the Wyvern's cleanup hitter. He is shot during the incident at Elnard. Kazama helped inform Kiryu about the current state of affairs when he was released from prison. Minister Suzuki opposes this plan, submitting a resort proposal instead. His ties with Tsuruya and Itoh will open the Yoshioka Dojo's doors to Miyamoto Musashi. 60 years old. Hayashi and his men meet Kazuma Kiryu at Mizuki's bar, Ares, on top of the Millennium Tower. At the climax of the story, the two fight on the top of Kamurocho Hills. Shigeru Nakahara (名嘉原 茂, Nakahara Shigeru). He goes to meet Mishima, an Ueno Seiwa-kai member to give him protection, but Mishima is shot and killed by Junji Sugiuchi. As a result, he marks a major contrast with the game's dark setting. Hiroaki Arai (新井 弘明, Arai Hiroaki) is Akiyama's friend and Kido's superior. Although she now lives with her mother, she and Makoto still have a good relationship. When Kiryu defeats Shindo in combat, Shindo attempts to kill Yayoi. Debuting in Yakuza 4, the Ueno Seiwa Clan (上野誠和会) is an organization that was in the midst of a power-struggle with the Tojo Clan in 1985. After the events of the game he works with Date, who rejoins the force. Majima holds a strong rivalry with Kiryu, believing himself the only one who has the right to kill him, but over time becomes one of Kiryu's most stalwart allies. He also meets Saya's boyfriend, though at first he disapproves of him. While her memory is gone she meets Kyohei Jingu, with whom she conceives Haruka. This character was introduced in Like a Dragon: Prologue. In the epilogue Haruka can be seen praying at his grave, saying, "Thank you for everything.". During this time she begins to fall for Kiryu. He is abducted by Midorikawa and Hatsushiba Clan men before Akiyama rescues him. However he denies his involvement and explains that they are an enigma to everyone in Nagoya. The English-language adaptation equivalents are mentioned when available. However, they were highly critical to his different personality in Kiwami, calling it "jarring", and added that Yakuza 0 failed to close this character arc. The mastermind behind a self-sufficient underground world called Purgatory and a district-wide surveillance system, Kage the Florist (Sai no Hanaya in the Japanese version) is a notorious professional informant, and can provide any information for a price. After the cop leaves, Shinada remembers that he never asked their names. He also appears during a substory in Yakuza 3, finishing Rikiya's tattoo. 25 years before the events of Yakuza 4, he had been investigating the shooting of Yoshiharu Ueno, submitting a false report to Munakata to the director of the criminal investigations department which implicating Saejima as the perpetrator. Yutaka Mishima (三島 豊, Mishima Yutaka) is Ihara's underling, with whom he created a disturbance in club Elnard. "Kazumanosuke" is a medieval version of the name "Kazuma", as this character is Kazuma Kiryu's ancestor. He then requested that Sera, then Tojo Clan chairman, hire an assassin to kill Yumi and Haruka. 25-year-old Sayama is a lead detective of the Osakan police. Seeing them solely to be used for sports and not as weapons of violence. Itō is Kazumanosuke's senpai (senior), a good friend of his and also a colleague as he is a yojimbo (bodyguard) working for Tsuruya, Gion's greatest brothel. He had a promising career in the major leagues, but it was cut short when he received a lifetime ban for a baseball gambling/game fixing scandal. She suffered from a disease which had her periodically going to the hospital since 1984. Rejecting him, Arai shoots Munakata, though the bullet is only plastic. When the CIA learn Toma betrayed Minister Tamiya for his rival Suzuki, thus threatening the Black Monday project, Joji Kazama is sent to Ryukyu's Canal Grande hostess club to assassinate him. In chapter 9, it is revealed that she betrayed Kiryu out of love for Nishiki and became his informant. He is a father figure for Saki, just like Kiryu is to Haruka. Relationships Hiroshi Kanemura (金村 大, Kanemura Hiroshi) is the owner Kanemura Enterprises, and has a passive personality. Saki (咲) Goh (浜崎 豪, Hamazaki Gō) is the tough leader of the Hamazaki Family (浜崎組, Hamazaki-gumi). He appears in the fourth game as an 11-year-old. Utabori (二代目歌彫, Nidaime Utabori) Taiga Saejima's younger sister. Although he didn't make an appearance in Yakuza: Dead Souls, his name was mentioned by one of the Tojo Clan members stating that he was in China on business during the events that took place in Kamurocho. Defeating Manabe, he hands Shinada the phone and learns of the true culprit: Fujita, the man who gave a chance to become part of the Nagoya Wyverns. The incident was covered up with help from Sugiuchi and Munakata, who helped to frame Saejima. Wataru Kurahashi is a 42-year-old chief superintendent. Ryuji praises him for spending money on women even while being homeless. The rebellious only daughter of Detective Makoto Date, she often goes looking for trouble in the streets of Kamurocho. Katsuragi then leaves and tells Daigo to decide what he should do. He tries to shoot Kaoru, but Kawara uses his body to shield her and takes the bullet before shooting Kurahashi and killing him. Ayaka Tsubaki is modeled after the Japanese TV personality and Koakuma Ageha magazine fashion model Ayana Tsubaki. Akiyama was portrayed to be an elite in his 20s, during which time he dated his coworker, Eri, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Yasuko Saejima (Lily). He is placed up to bat against his long time minor league rival, Yuki Sawada. His fate is left uncertain until Kashiwagi reveals that he has stashed him in a hospital to recover, but has not told anyone of Daigo's whereabouts. He is the father of Saya Date. Later, Kazama introduced Kiryu and Nishiki in the Dojima Family. 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