Koshimizu Family

The Koshimizu Family (; Koshimizu-gumi) is a yakuza family featured in Yakuza 6. They are a subsidiary of Hiroshima's Yomei Alliance.
==Background==
The Koshimizu Family is the largest and most powerful organization within the Yomei Alliance. Due to its success, its patriarch, Kanji Koshimizu, was selected by the Yomei Chairman, Heizo Iwami, to serve as his successor in the Alliance's chairmanship.
==Yakuza 6==
In 2016, Takaaki Matsunaga of the Hirose Family got into a fight with some employees of the Chairman Iwami's company, Iwami Shipbuilding. As a result, Chairman Iwami sent Patriarch Koshimizu and some of his men to discipline the Hirose Family for assaulting his underlings. Ultimately, Koshimizu did not punish the Hirose Family after Kazuma Kiryu took responsibility for the fight (and after Hirose Captain Tsuyoshi Nagumo beat up Matsunaga as punishment for the incident).
A few days later, Takumi Someya of the Tojo Clan came to Hiroshima to negotiate a business partnership between his organization and the Yomei, and to swear an oath of brotherhood with Koshimizu. While Someya stayed in Hiroshima, he was housed at the Senkoji Overlook Hotel and protected by a detachment of soldiers from the Koshimizu Family. When Kiryu and the members of the Hirose Family raided the hotel to rescue Kiyomi Kasahara; whom they believed had been kidnapped by her ex-husband Someya, they ended up having to fight their way past these Koshimizu guards.
A week after the Senkoji incident, Chairman Iwami's son; Tsuneo, ordered Patriarch Koshimizu to scour Onomichi for Haruto Sawamura; a baby he intended to kidnap for his own criminal purposes. Believing the order to have come from Chairman Iwami, Koshimizu did as instructed and sent his men into Onomichi to find and take the baby. Patriarch Toru Hirose realized what was happening and took the baby into hiding. In the ensuing night, the Hirose Family's men fought several brawls against Koshimizu soldiers who were after the baby, culminating with Kiryu fighting Patriarch Koshimizu himself at the entrance to the Ryunan Shrine to keep him from reaching Hirose and Haruto.
After Tsuneo succeeded in usurping control of the Yomei Alliance, he order Koshimizu to execute his father so the Yomei Chairmanship would be left open. Despite not wanting to obey, Koshimizu complied and murdered Chairman Iwami in order to preserve his family's position within the Alliance. 
Later on, Koshimizu would kidnap Kiyomi Kasahara once again; this time on Tsuneo's orders, to use her to force Someya to fight Kiryu to the death. When Someya lost the fight, Tsuneo ordered Koshimizu to execute Kasahara, but Koshimizu refused to obey this time. Instead, Koshimizu only pretended to kill the woman and then hid her away until the heat died down and he could release her back in Onomichi.
During Chairman Iwami's funeral, Koshimizu was present along with his family's officers and several of their bodyguards. Before Tsuneo could proclaim himself the second chairman of the Alliance, Kiryu and Nagumo attacked the ceremony to assassinate him and his co-conspirator, Katsumi Sugai. Tsuneo ordered the Koshimizu Family to defend him, resulting in a battle between Koshimizu's men and the two interlopers, which the Yomei men did not win. Patriarch Koshimizu himself ended up getting beaten unconscious by Kiryu.
After Tsuneo's arrest for his father's murder, the Yomei Alliance reorganized itself and its patriarchs selected Koshimizu as Chairman Iwami's successor. After Koshimizu was proclaimed Second Chairman of the Yomei Alliance, the Koshimizu Family officially became the Yomei's main family to which all others rendered tribute.
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