Sasai Family

The Sasai Family (, Sasai-gumi) was a yakuza family and subsidiary to Tojo Clan. It was led by Hideki Sasai.
==History==
In 1985, the Sasai Family worked alongside the Dojima Family in a plot to assassinate Yoshiharu Ueno. Taiga Saejima was selected to carry out the hit.
However, in reality, the entire hit was a setup orchestrated by a traitor in the the Tojo Clan: Kazuo Shibata of the Shibata Family. Shibata had conspired with a traitor in the Ueno Seiwa Clan, Isao Katsuragi. The hit was staged so that Saejima would avoid killing anyone, as the firearms he was provided with were loaded with rubber bullets that would only knock them out. After Saejima knocked out the Ueno Seiwa members, falsely thinking he'd killed them, Katsuragi executed all of them (except the chairman) and left Saejima to be blamed for their deaths. Katsuragi presented himself as the savior of the chairman to elevate his status in the Ueno Seiwa, while Shibata would act as though he had brokered peace with them in order to elevate his own place in the Tojo Clan.
After the hit, Saejima was imprisoned, and as punishment for their supposed responsibility in the hit, the Sasai Family was dissolved. Patriarch Sasai went into hiding; after escaping prison, Saejima would find him 25 years later in 2010, having gone catatonic during his time in hiding.
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Category:Sasai Family
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