Hamazaki Family

The Hamazaki Family (浜崎組, Hamazaki-gumi) is a subsidiary of the Tojo Clan which appears in Yakuza 3.
== Background ==
The Hamazaki Family were a small-time, Yokohama-based group within the Tojo Clan until after the Tojo-Omi war of 2006. Between that year and 2009, the Hamazaki Family formed a partnership with their former rivals, the Snake Flower Triad, allowing them to operate in ostensibly Tojo-controlled territory in exchange for giving the Hamazaki Family a cut of the proceeds. Through this business strategy, the Hamazaki Family became one of the Tojo Clan's most profitable organizations, in spite of only having ten members besides its patriarch, Goh Hamazaki.
== Yakuza 3 ==
After Tojo Chairman Daigo Dojima is shot and left in a coma by a pair of mysterious assassins, Patriarch Hamazaki sees an opportunity for massive profit for his family and the Snake Flower. One year prior, Chairman Dojima had withdrawn Tojo Clan support from a proposed tourist resort in Okinawa, stalling the development of the project. Taking advantage of Chairman Dojima's ailment, Hamazaki conspired with Snake Flower leader Lau Ka Long to push the deal forward and split the proceeds between them. In order to guarantee further support from within the Tojo, Hamazaki also cut in the much more powerful Majima Family by offering them the construction contracts for the resort.
Unfortunately for the Hamazaki Family, Kazuma Kiryu discovered their plot and, suspecting them of being behind Daigo's shooting, moved to expose their betrayal of the Clan. In order to prevent Kiryu's intervention, Hamazaki sent Lau and several of his men to kidnap Kiryu's friend, Rikiya Shimabukuro, and use him as bait to lead Kiryu into a trap. In the ensuing confrontation, Kiryu managed to rescue Rikiya and Lau was shot and seemingly killed by Joji Kazama.
Following Lau's seeming demise, the officers of his Triad murdered all of Hamazaki's underlings as retaliation for bringing them into the business deal that resulted in their boss' death. Patriarch Hamazaki himself avoided execution by the Triad by going into hiding and living on the streets among Kamurocho's homeless.
Soon after, Hamazaki would be arrested and sentenced to prison for trying to murder Kiryu and the Hamazaki Family would be disbanded.
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