Akitsu the Man Without a Past

Akitsu the Man Without a Past (; Kako no nai Otoko Akitsu, Lit. "Man Without a Past Akitsu") is a member of the anti-yakuza vigilante group known as The Reapers, whom Kazuma Kiryu faces off against during the Hitman sidestory in Yakuza 3.
==Background==
Akitsu was once a hitman for an unspecified Tojo Clan family. Not much is revealed about his time with the yakuza, except for one incident involving Kiryu. At some point before 1995, while Kiryu was still part of the Dojima Family, he and Akitsu got into a fight outside a theater in Kamurocho, which Kiryu won easily.
At some later point, Akitsu sustained a serious head injury while on a job and wound up losing his memory; only remembering his name and his hitman training. Knowing nobody and having no skills besides murder, he eventually joined the Reapers to continue making money as an assassin.
==Yakuza 3==
While Kiryu is visiting the Honest Living Association's offices in Okinawa, he is told about Akitsu's presence nearby and he decides to try to recruit him into the HLA.
Kiryu finds Akitsu staring wistfully into the Ryukyu River and offers him a chance to start anew with the HLA if he answers some questions about the Reapers. However, Akitsu misinterprets Kiryu's request and believes he will turn him over to the police, so he attacks him with a dagger. During the ensuing fight, Akitsu is defeated, but one of the blows that Kiryu dealt to his head actually restores his memories.
Akitsu is ecstatic about remembering everything about his past and agrees to tell the HLA everything he knows about the Reapers. However, this knowledge turns out to be limited, since the blow that restored Akitsu's old memories also made him forget everything that happened to him after he lost his memories.
Regardless, for getting Akitsu to leave the Reapers, Kiryu is paid 110,000 yen.
Category:The Reapers
Category:Yakuza 3 Characters