Ueno Seiwa Clan

The Ueno Seiwa Clan (, Ueno Seiwa-kai) are a Tokyo-based yakuza organization featured in Yakuza 4. Formerly an enemy of the Tojo Clan, they now share an equal alliance, however act more as a subsidiary due to the difference in scale.
== History ==
=== Background ===
The Ueno Seiwa Clan was founded before or around 1980 by Yoshiharu Ueno. They stood as a major enemy of the Tojo Clan, and the two groups fought for control of Kamurocho. Around 1983, chairman Ueno was incarcerated for two years. During the time leading up to his release, Isao Katsuragi, an officer of the clan, began to plot a scheme in order to be promoted to captain.
On April 21, 1985, Ueno was released, and the infamous Ueno Seiwa Hit was pulled off by Taiga Saejima of the Sasai Family. During the hit, eighteen of the clans officers were killed, except for Katsuragi and Ueno himself. Believing Katsuragi had saved his life, Ueno promoted Katsuragi to captain. In the ensuing months, the Ueno Seiwa Clan attacked Hideki Sasai of the Sasai Family, leaving him critically wounded.
By 2010, the Ueno Seiwa Clan stood as equals to the Tojo Clan, however lack real power due to the difference in scale.
=== Yakuza 4 ===
During the events of Yakuza 4, it's revealed that the Yoshiharu Ueno hit had been a conspiracy orchestrated by Shibata and Katsuragi to advance their careers within their respective clans. Shibata had been the one to covertly provide Sasai the tip on Ueno's whereabouts on the day of his release to coax him into the attack, after which he also provided the weapons for the assassination, which he acquired through Katsuragi's oath brother and police infiltrator, Detective Junji Sugiuchi. These were revolvers loaded with experimental, non-fatal rubber bullets; which Saejima, being inexperienced with firearms, could not distinguish from real bullets. 
The plan was for an unwitting Saejima to carry out the attack with the rubber bullets, knocking out all the victims without killing them. During the hit, Katsuragi would put on an act of shielding Ueno with his own body to save him and afterwards, while everyone else was unconscious, Katsuragi and Sugiuchi would kill all the targets except for Ueno with real gunshots. Katsuragi would gain the boss' favor for "saving" his life and then he would leverage that favor to negotiate a peace with Shibata, who would be rewarded for achieving this peace on the Tojo side. Sugiuchi would then file a false police report as the first officer on the scene to hide all evidence of the conspiracy.
The plan initially went off without incident, until Sugiuchi filed his report. Sugiuchi's commanding officer, Chief Seishiro Munakata, immediately noticed the inconsistencies in the report and pieced together that Katsuragi had been involved in orchestrating the whole deal. Instead of inquiring further and exposing the conspirators, Chief Munakata opted instead to blackmail all three, using Katsuragi and Shibata as his puppets within the yakuza. For the ensuing 25 years, Munakata would covertly control the Shibata Family and the Katsuragi Family, using them to influence the Tokyo underworld and advance his own career. For his part, Shibata would also exploit his knowledge of the conspiracy as well, repeatedly pressuring Munakata and Katsuragi to do him favors in exchange for his silence.
By 2010, Katsuragi had become Captain of the Ueno Seiwa Clan and served as de facto chairman while Ueno was on his death bed. Nonetheless, he continued to be little more than Munakata's puppet to control the Ueno Seiwa Clan; a situation which Katsuragi desperately wanted to change. To this effect, he hatched a plot to acquire enough money and power that he would no longer have to fear Munakata's wrath if he defied orders. Katsuragi promoted Masaru Ihara, one of his up-and-coming young officers, to Clan Lieutenant and then arranged for Hiroaki Arai, a member of the Shibata Family, to kill him during a bar brawl. Using the murder of a high-ranking officer as pretext, Katsuragi would then demand that the Tojo Clan either hand over Arai (whom Katsuragi himself would be hiding) or make the Ueno Seiwa partners in the Kamurocho Hills project, which was being developed by Goro Majima, a Tojo officer of the same rank as Ihara.
Simultaneously, Katsuragi also tricked Taiga Saejima's younger sister, Yasuko Saejima, into murdering all Shibata Family officers who knew the truth about the Ueno hit, since he wanted to eliminate as many people who knew the truth as possible. Eventually, he would also order the murder of Shibata himself, having become tired of his constant demands for favors in exchange for his silence. When Detective Masayoshi Tanimura of the Community Protection division of the Tokyo Police discovered Katsuragi's manipulation of Yasuko, he coerced the Ueno Captain into a meeting to question him about the truth of the hit in 1985. Katsuragi met with Tanimura and revealed some facts about the conspiracy to him, before luring him into a trap and trying to have him killed. However, Tanimura was saved by the intervention of Detective Sugiuchi, who by that point had also become tired of serving Katsuragi and started to defy his orders.
Eventually, Katsuragi realized that the Tojo Clan would not give in and accept his demand to be included in the Kamurocho Hills project. Furthermore, Munakata had caught onto the fact that he was trying to secure enough power to break away from him and started to plot the destruction of both Katsuragi and the Ueno Seiwa for defying him. Just as it seemed as though he was out of options, Katsuragi was approached by Takeshi Kido, Arai's oath brother in the Shibata Family, who revealed to him where Shun Akiyama of Sky Finance kept his vast cash fortune of 100 billion yen. Elated, Katsuragi and the Ueno Seiwa stole the money, intending to use it to expand their business outside of Munakata's control. Katsuragi also had his men kidnap the Saejima siblings, since their recent activities were threatening to expose the truth of his crimes.
A new opportunity presented itself for Katsuragi when Kazuma Kiryu, the legendary 4th Chairman of the Tojo Clan, informed him that he had in his possession a ledger and several documents that proved that Munakata had been behind a scheme to launder public funds to establish a private prison to which he could send his political rivals on trumped up charges and any yakuza who caused problems for his plans to control the Tokyo underworld. Kiryu offered to give Katsuragi these documents in exchange for the Saejima siblings' freedom. Katsuragi agreed to the exchange but, being familiar with Kiryu's reputation, he insisted that Kiryu who would have to fight his way through multitudes of his men to get to the meeting point atop Kamurocho Hills, since Katsuragi wanted Kiryu to be too weak to attack him during the exchange.
Kiryu proceeded to travel to Kamurocho Hills, where he indeed had to fight his way past dozens upon dozens of Ueno Seiwa thugs, including the clan's four surviving lieutenants. Ultimately, Kiryu defeated all the men Katsuragi threw at him and made it to the top of the construction project for the exchange, whereupon a chain of betrayals ensued. Kido betrayed Katsuragi and shot him in order to make sure Arai could escape with the money and the ledger, but Arai then proceeded to also shoot Kido, since he'd secretly been a lackey for Munakata all along. After Arai's departure, it's revealed that Katsuragi had been wearing a bulletproof vest to try to fake his death in front of Munakata's infiltrator, something Taiga Saejima noticed. Not wanting his fake death plot to be ruined, Katsuragi tries to kill Kiryu, Taiga and Yasuko. Ultimately, Yasuko takes a bullet for her brother and kills Katsuragi before dying from her wound.
With the death of their clan's captain and the eventual exposure of the fact that they'd secretly been serving the interests of he city's corrupt police commissioner, the Ueno Seiwa Clan would be disbanded before the end of the year and all their territory would be absorbed by the Tojo Clan.
== Known Members ==
* Yoshiharu Ueno - Chairman
* Isao Katsuragi - Captain / De facto Chairman
* Junji Sugiuchi - Oath brother to Katsuragi; infiltrated the police as a Detective
* Masaru Ihara - Lieutenant
* Yutaka Mishima - Soldier
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