Takashima Family

The Takashima Family (, Ōmi Takashima-kai) is a yakuza group featured in Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2. They are a top subsidiary of the Omi Alliance, led by its Chief of HQ during the games' events, Ryo Takashima.
== Background ==
The Takashima Family sprang from the Terada Family, the organization spearheaded by Patriarch Ryo Takashima's oath brother and mentor, Yukio Terada. After Terada left the Omi in 2005 to become Chairman of the rival Tojo Clan, Patriarch Takashima was granted Terada's old post as chief of the Omi's Headquarters Administration and, correspondingly, the Takashima Family was put in control of the Omi Alliance Headquarters.
Outside of their role in managing the Omi HQ, the Takashima Family's primary line of business is arms trafficking. According to Chief Tsutomu Bessho and the Riichi Tower Mahjong Informant, the Takashima Family are the biggest high-caliber weapons importers in Kansai. However, they only sell these smuggled guns to other groups within the Omi whom they trust, since they do not wish to risk having a gun used on a random street crime traced to them.
===Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2: 2006 ===
Some time prior to 2006, Yukio Terada had revealed to Patriarch Takashima that his real name was Daejin Kim and that he was a former member of the Jingweon Mafia; a Korean criminal syndicate whose Japanese branch had been wiped out by the Dojima Family. Terada and several members of the Jingweon's mainland operations were plotting to re-start Jingweon operations in Japan and wipe out the Tojo Clan as retaliation for their massacre of the Jingweon's leadership in 1980. Kim offered Takashima control over vast swaths of Tokyo if he and the Takashima Family collaborated in this conspiracy, which Takashima accepted.
By 2006, Terada had successfully infiltrated the Tojo Clan and become its Fifth Chairman after a debilitating civil war in December of 2005 left the Tojo leaderless. To fulfill his revenge, Terada faked his own assassination at the hands of Go-Ryu Clan hitmen in order to spark a war between the Tojo and the Omi; hoping that the Omi would easily defeat the weakened Tojo and Takashima would inherit control over the Omi from an elderly Chairman Jin Goda. Unfortunately for Terada and Takashima, their plans were complicated when Go-Ryu Patriarch Ryuji Goda tried to overthrow his father during peace talks with the Tojo, starting a civil conflict within the Omi that prevented the entire organization from uniting to take on the Tojo.
After the Tojo emissary to the peace talks; Kazuma Kiryu, was arrested by Osaka Police Detective Kaoru Sayama, Takashima ordered one of his men to non-fatally wound the detective with a rifle smuggled in through their arms trafficking operations. Takashima hoped that Kiryu would trace the attack to his organization, in order to intimidate him into leaving Kansai and thus put an end to his efforts to restart the peace talks.
While the Go-Ryu Clan and the Sengoku Family make their own direct attempts to invade and conquer Tokyo, the Takashima Family largely stays inactive in the war; relying on their rival Omi families to weaken the Tojo before they and the Jingweon can move in to strike the killing blow.
After both the Sengoku and Go-Ryu armies are repelled by the Tojo forces, the Jingweon mobilize to attack Kamurocho and assassinate Kazuma Kiryu and the rest of the Tojo's leadership. When Takashima realizes that the Jingweon's plan will fail, he assassinates Chairman Goda and then betrays the Jingweon by killing Terada before making his own attempt on Kiryu so he can take over Tokyo for himself. However, Takashima's final gambit is foiled by Ryuji Goda, who shoots Takashima before he can kill Kiryu.
It is unclear what became of the Takashima Family after their patriarch's death. However, due to their disappearance from the rest of the series and their patriarch's betrayal of the Omi, it is likely that they were disbanded.
== Trivia ==
* At no point in the game is a member of the Takashima Family ever fought. This is because Takashima operates behind the scenes during most of the game's events (allowing Sengoku, Ryuji and Terada to have their organizations attack Kiryu), and Takashima himself isn't fought because Ryuji is the one to defeat him in the finale. This is a distinction shared with the Saejima Family.
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