Black Monday

Black Monday (, Buraku Mandei) is a secretive American criminal organization that appears in Yakuza 3.
== Background ==
Black Monday is a rogue unit of CIA Agents who deal in international arms trafficking, terrorism and espionage. According to Minister Ryuzo Tamiya, the organization was named after the nickname given to the New York stock exchange stock market crash of 1987; which Ryuzo claims was partially orchestrated by Black Monday to enrich its members.
== Yakuza 3 ==
Prior to the events of Yakuza 3, CIA Agent Joji Kazama approached his old colleague, Japanese Defense Minister Ryuzo Tamiya, with a proposal to lure Black Monday's leadership into a trap. The plan would involve the Minister introducing a bill into the Japanese Diet to authorize the creation of a new American military base in Okinawa to serve as an experimental weapons development facility. Since Black Monday was heavily active in East Asia, this new facility would definitely draw their attention and they would surely make attempts to infiltrate the base and steal the experimental weapons within, giving Kazama and his CIA handlers a chance to capture them. Given that Black Monday was one of the biggest illegal arms smugglers in Japan, Tamiya agreed.
The Minister introduced the bill as instructed, only to have his political rival Yoshinobu Suzuki successfully motion the Diet to combine the military base bill with a bill of his own to create a tourist resort in Okinawa, thus forcing Tamiya to help pass Suzuki's resort bill if he wants his own base bill to be approved. This complicated the CIA's plan, as the resort bill required a lot more land acquisition by the government than the base bill would have and civilian holdouts who did not want to sell their land would surely stall the project. In order to prevent this, Joji and his partner Andre Richardson (who was secretly Black Monday's leader and was unaware that the experimental weapon facility was a trap) were dispatched to Japan to ensure both bills were passed.
When Daigo Dojima of the Tojo Clan obstructed the passing of the bill because it would involve confiscating land from his retired mentor Kazuma Kiryu's orphanage, Kazama and Richardson tried to coerce Dojima into cooperating with them. When Dojima refused, the agents shot him in order to ensure a different, more amenable yakuza leader could take over and push the deal forward. Despite the fact that Daigo survived the shooting (though remaining in a coma), Kazama and Richardson managed to enlist the help of Dojima's right-hand man, Yoshitaka Mine, by convincing him that having the Tojo acquire the land for the resort deal would make the Clan a fortune and fulfill Daigo's dream of having the Tojo regain the stability it had prior to the events of the series' first game.
When Kiryu began investigating the conspiracy surrounding Daigo's shooting, Richardson made multiple attempts to kill him before he could discover the truth, but he and his men were unable to kill the former Tojo Chairman. Ultimately, Kiryu discovered the CIA's plot after having an audience with Minister Tamiya. Kiryu would go on to convince Kazama to desist in his plan, since it was causing too much chaos for the people of both Tokyo and Okinawa, but Mine and Richardson could not be talked down.
In order to put a stop to the conspiracy, Kiryu wound up having to fight with Mine atop Touto University Hospital to convince him that Daigo would not want him to resort to ruthless means like the ones he'd been using to fulfill his dream. After Mine was swayed, Richardson revealed his true role as Black Monday's leader and, along with many of his goons, attempted to kill Kiryu, Daigo and Mine in order to wipe the slate clean and find somebody else to aid in passing the military base bill. Unfortunately for him, Daigo managed to distract Richardson long enough for Mine to put him in a chokehold and then drag both himself and Richardson off the roof.
After Richardson's supposed death, the Japanese authorities arrested all the other Black Monday leaders who were with him in Japan, dealing a fatal blow to the organization.
Category:Black Monday
Category:American Organizations