Taigi Tanimura

Taigi Tanimura (, Tanimura Taigi) is a character featured in Yakuza 4. He was a detective working for the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
== Background ==
In the early 1980's, Tanimura was the star detective of the Homicide Division of the Kamurocho Precinct of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, alongside his less-decorated partner, Junji Sugiuchi.
In 1984, Tanimura's friend Yusuke Kaga approached him and another Homicide detective, Saki, with information regarding a series of murders which Saki had linked to a human trafficking ring. As it turned out, this trafficking ring had been bribing Kaga for years to keep their operations secret, but now he had fallen in love with a Thai woman who had been trafficked by the organization (known as the Bridge Syndicate) and fathered a son with her. Due to this, Kaga wanted to not only protect his new love and their child, but also to put a stop to the crimes he had previously helped perpetrate.
After Tanimura and Saki helped Kaga get his Thai lover back to her home country, Kaga gave his son to Tanimura to look after while he infiltrated the syndicate's base to acquire evidence to bring its members to trial. Unfortunately for Kaga, the syndicate had caught onto his betrayal and had him killed before he could deliver the evidence. Without the documentation that Kaga could provide nor his link to the group itself, Tanimura and Saki found that their investigation into the syndicate fell apart.
Since Kaga's son had been left in his care, Tanimura adopted him as his own, naming him Masayoshi.
In April 1985, Tanimura was assigned as the lead detective on the case of the Ueno Seiwa Hit, alongside Sugiuchi. Tanimura was quick to discover the truth behind the case, learning that Isao Katsuragi and Kazuo Shibata were behind the hit. However he dug deeper into the case, and managed to uncover corruption in the police force. He learned that someone in the police had been covering up the case.
On April 30, 1985, Tanimura headed to meet with Yasuko Saejima. However, he was murdered by Sugiuchi before meeting her. His body was dumped into the Arakawa River, where it was retrieved later that night.
Category:Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
Category:Yakuza 4 Characters