Crash Kajiwara

Crash Kajiwara (, Kurashu Kajiwara) is a character featured in the Taxi Driver Side Story in Yakuza 5.
He is one of the "Four Kings", the leading members of the Devil Killers street racing gang, who run an illegal race gambling operation in the highways of Fukuoka.
== Profile ==
=== Personality ===
Kajiwara is a short-tempered man who is quick to turn to violence when displeased. He frequently beats his subordinates within the Devil Killers if they lose races and also frequently beats people who don't show his gang the deference he feels they deserve.
=== Appearance ===
Kajiwara is a burly middle-aged man with a buzzcut hairstyle who constantly wears dark track suits.
== Involvement ==
=== Background ===
Kajiwara was a street racer in the city of Fukuoka who joined the Devil Killers after the departure of its original founders and Devil Takamura's takeover of leadership. He quickly became one of the gang's top racers and also quickly gained a reputation for his use of dirty tactics in racing. His habit of trying to spin out his opponents or slam them into the highway sides earned him his nickname of "Crash" Kajiwara.
=== Yakuza 5 ===
In 2012, Kazuma Kiryu, who was at the time employed as a taxi driver by the Nagasu Taxi Company under the alias of "Taichi Suzuki", beat two of Kajiwara's subordinates in street races. Angered by the subordinates' failure to live up to the standards of the Devil Killers, Kajiwara beat them both so badly that they wound up in the hospital. Afterwards, he put in a complaint against Kiryu with his employers to get him to show up at a rest stop outside Nagasugai, where Kajiwara could the challenge Kiryu to a race against him.
Kiryu accepts Kajiwara's challenge and ends up defeating him. Kajiwara's humiliation is furthered when his immediate superior within the Devil Killers, Cool Yoshimi, makes his presence known and berates him for having lost to an amateur. Angered, Kajiwara attacks Kiryu, but gets defeated in combat as well. Too battered to continue, Kajiwara accepts defeat and pleads for Kiryu to not hit him anymore.
Kajiwara shows up again to be a spectator when Kiryu takes on the Devil Killers' leader, Devil Takamura. After beating Takamura in a race, Kiryu demands that the defeated racer disband the Devil Killers, as per the bet they'd made. However, Takamura reneges on his deal and instead orders the other members of the Four Kings to help him kill Kiryu. Kajiwara joins in to attack Kiryu, seeking revenge for his past humiliation. Unfortunately for him and the other members of the Four Kings, Kiryu easily beats them all in a fight despite being outnumbered.
After Kiryu has humiliated them once more, their humiliation only deepens when Toru Onisaka, one of the gang's two original founders, shows up and belittles them for how low the group has fallen, both at being so easily beaten by an amateur and because of the dirty tactics they've resorted to. Under pressure from Onisaka, Kajiwara and the other Kings are forced to disband the gang.
Category:Devil Killers
Category:Racing Opponents
Category:Yakuza 5 Characters
Category:Yakuza 5 Antagonists