Kanto Gangsters

The Kanto Gangsters (, Kanto Gyangusutāzu) are a street gang featured in Yakuza 4.
== Background ==
The Kanto Gangsters were formed by a young woman called Mika who had a fascination with the Japanese underworld and wanted to be part of it. However, since gangsters tend not to take women in crime seriously, she got her then boyfriend to act as her frontman and form the gang for her: He would pretend to lead the gang while she actually made all the leadership and business decisions from behind the scenes. Through Mika's discreet leadership, the Kanto Gangsters became one of the most powerful streets gangs in the Kanto region of Japan, but they consciously stayed out of Tokyo due to the yakuza's large presence in that city.
As time went on and Mika broke up with this boyfriend, she got herself another one and got him to take up leadership of the Kanto Gangsters. This happened an unknown amount of times until 2010, when Mika's current boyfriend, RA, runs the gang.
== Yakuza 4 ==
In 2010, RA grows bored of the lack of challenges that the Kanto Gangsters face in running their turf, as most other street gangs refuse to go up against them anymore because they've become too powerful. To curve this boredom, RA orders the Kanto Gangsters to begin expanding into Tokyo, against Mika's wishes. In particular, the gang begins to travel into the heart of the yakuza's turf, Kamurocho, with the aim of hunting down and defeating the legendary Kazuma Kiryu, who had recently returned to town and taken down two other gangs.
Kiryu is harassed and attacked by multiple Gangsters, until he eventually learns from one of them that the gang's leader likes to hang out in the Kamurocho rooftops to look down at their underlings and monitor their work. Taking this hint, Kiryu searches the Kamurocho rooftops until he comes upon the vantage point from where Mika and RA run their surveillance. Upon being confronted with Kiryu, RA is initially taken aback, as he hadn't expected the former Tojo Chairman would ever be able to track him down. Mika chides RA, saying his idea of putting out a bounty on Kiryu caused this. Humiliated in front of his girlfriend, RA attacks Kiryu with help from his goons, but they are all easily beaten.
After his defeat, RA runs away from the scene, leaving behind an angered Mika. Kiryu asks Mika to take him to the Gangsters' boss, as he hadn't yet figured out that she was the group's secret leader. Annoyed, Mika reveals the truth to Kiryu. She also says that, now that the group has been humiliated by him and that somebody beside her boyfriend knows the truth, there's no point in keeping the gang going and she'll be leaving her criminal "hobby" in the past.
Category:Gangs