Akashiro Clan

The Akashiro Clan (赤城会, Akashiro-kai), is a yakuza group based in the Kusanagi Megasprawl, on the continent of Fusōdō southwest of Albion. It the largest yakuza group in Hyperion, marginally surpassing the Zedohishi Clan, a yakuza group based in Albion. 
By 2698, it was estimated that the Akashiro Alliance have around 80,000 members divided among 178 yakuza families, five of which are direct subsidiaries of the group. Combined with the various organizations under its wing such as the Shinsengumi and various bōsōzoku groups, it's assumed that the Akashiro Clan have more than a hundred thousand members.
== History ==
The Akashiro Clan's history can be traced back to the exploits of Makoto Noguchi (野口誠, Noguchi Makoto), the Patriarch of the Noguchi Family (野口組, Noguchi-gumi) who was connected to the Four Seas Alliance. He managed to establish an ad-hoc alliance with the cooperative patriarchs of the Fujiwara Family (藤原組, Fujiwara-gumi), the Hidaka Family (日高組, Hidaka-gumi), the Kamiya Family (神谷組, Kamiya-gumi), the Matsumoto Family (松本組, Matsumoto-gumi), and the Miyashita Family (宮下組, Miyashita-gumi) to establish his plan.
The so-called New Japan Plan (新日本計画, Shin Nihon Keikaku) was implemented after the alliance established the necessary long-term logistical networks with the Four Seas Alliance in smuggling debt-slaved Terran Japanese into the Fuso Colony (扶桑集落, Fusō-shūraku) in Hyperion. 
The re-settlement effort experienced rapid pace in urbanization that workers who were commissioned to work in urban expansion efforts were jokingly referred to as the Grass-Cutting Swords (草薙の剣, Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi) after the Imperial Regalia of Japan. The name became popular folklore among the inhabitants that they ended up reporting the settlement's name as Kusanagi after its administrative integration to the Hyperian Planetary Government. 
Prior to Makoto Noguchi's death, he commissioned the Akashiro Castle and built it at the center of present-day Sōkyūchō in honor of his visions of a single roof covering all the eight directions of Hyperion. After its construction, a conference was held in the Akashiro Castle between the yakuza families who enacted the New Japan Plan and declared Makoto Noguchi as the first chairman of the Akashiro Clan and officially consolidated as a group on January 1, 2168. 
Makoto Noguchi was reported to have cried out "Long Live Freedom!" (自由万歳, Jiyū banzai) three times before dying four seconds later. He was later succeeded by his eldest son, Ichiro Noguchi (野口一郎, Noguchi Ichirō).
Presently, the Akashiro Clan represents the sole yakuza group which operates in the Kusanagi Megasprawl that answers directly to the Four Seas Alliance due to the aftermath of the Kouin War (甲寅戦争, Kōin Sensō, lit. "War of the Year of the Yang Wood Tiger"), a yakuza civil war fought in between April 4, 2455 and August 18, 2463. 
The Akashiro Alliance is currently led by its 20th Chairman, Masao Noguchi (野口正男, Noguchi Masao), a man rumored to be a directly related Tamotsu Noguchi (野口保, Noguchi Tamotsu), the 10th Chairman of the Akashiro and the founder of the Shinsengumi. Chairman Masao Noguchi actively prescribes his perceived traditional values and ethos of Terran Japan to the Yakuza, seeing the group as "defenders of Japanese society" against the "corrupted and hybridized cultures" of the globalized Hyperian society.
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