Hokkaido Joe

Hokkaido Joe is a Yakuza member from Kyushu. He was born Jō Kawashima in 2204, the son of the Oyabun of the Kawashima family. Through sheer nepotism he became his father's representative to several companies, including the Lethean River Company. He bragged about his new job publicly, and promptly lost his the tip of left pinky for doing so. He is very short and somewhat rotund.
Over the course of ten years, he managed to lose the rest of his pinky, first for disrespecting the Oyabun of an ally family, and then for public lewdness so shameful that a coprophagiac pornography actor who witnessed the act covered his eyes in disgust. He took on the name Hokkaido Joe to distance himself from the disgusting acts now associated with the name Jō Kawashima.
In 2231, Joe handled the Kawashima family dealings with Lethean River Company regarding their new memory drug. The drug had been declared illegal by UNEGA before the company even finished synthesizing it, and thus they turned to the Yakuza for distribution. When V Team came to hunt down the manufacturer, Veikko kept Joe's company for several hours (under the name Raoul Archduke) hoping he would divulge who made the drug, but Joe, oblivious to Veikko's intent, would not give up the information simply because he was talking Veikko's ear off about every random subject that crossed his mind.
Veikko eventually got fed up and killed Hokkaido Joe, shooting him in the neck and watching him die painfully with great satisfaction. He dragged the body back to Valhalla and hacked his brain, but in order to disguise their tracks Joe had to be resurrected and turned loose without memory of having died. Veikko was very sad to see him live.
== Spoilers ==
Joe was present on Ukiyo to offer his families services to Pelamus Pluturus when a spy was located. As the spy fled, Joe encountered Veikko during the prelude to Project Daunting, recognizing him only as the brief friend he'd spoken to, unaware of his true purpose or of having been killed by him. Shortly after realizing he too was a spy, Veikko killed him and made sure to destroy his brain.
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