Akane Kishida

Akane Kishida (, Kishida Akane) is a character featured in Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. She is the director of Palekana orphanage and a former employee of Shangri-La.
== Background ==
Around 1976, Akane began seeing Masumi Arakawa some time after her employment at Shangri-La had ended. This was done in secret due to Arakawa's arranged engagement to the patriarch of the Hikawa Family's daughter. Akane soon learned she was pregnant, which prompted Arakawa to come clean to his patriarch about the relationship. However, he delayed this until Akane was due on New Year's Eve. While in the maternity ward, she was warned by Arakawa that she and the baby were being hunted down by the Hikawa Family for disgracing its patriarch.
She escaped the hospital and got in contact with Arakawa, who urged her to meet him at Cafe Alps, but went into labor shortly thereafter. Apparently looking for somewhere safe to deliver the baby, she decided on her former workplace, Shangri-La. With her newborn son, she managed to make it to the coin lockers at Shinjuku Station before the Hikawa Family started to catch up to her. There, she was instructed over the phone by Arakawa to hide the baby in one of the lockers to make herself less recognizable as their target and hesitantly agrees. She placed the baby into coin locker #101 and entrusted his safety to Arakawa before fleeing the station. 
While on the run, she let Jiro Kasuga know of the plan and informed him her life was in danger. After that, she was believed to have taken refuge in a bar she and Arakawa were familiar with, discovered, and killed.
However, in reality she fled to the Philippines and then back to her birthplace in Hawaii, and managed to escape from her hunters. Eventually, she began working at Palekana Orphanage and became its director some time after. During this time, she was visited by Jo Sawashiro, and told him to falsely report her death to Arakawa. Seeing her change in lifestyle and not wanting to kill her in front of the orphans, Sawashiro complied with her request, and since then began exchanging letters with her to keep her up to date on Kasuga's life and wellbeing.
== Gallery ==
=== Yakuza: Like a Dragon ===
 
Akane - YLAD - Ch. 1 Light and Shadow - Kasuga's Childhood.png|Kasuga's mental image of Akane
=== Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth ===
LADIW - Character Gallery - Akane Kishida (photograph).png|A photograph of Young Adult Akane
== Notes ==
Category:Palekana
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Characters
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Minor Characters
Category:Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Characters