1980 Christmas Massacre

The Christmas Massacre of 1980, also known as the Kamurocho Christmas Massacre or the Jingweon Massacre, was an event in which the Dojima Family raided the headquarters of the Jingweon Mafia, killing 33 people. There were five survivors - Murai, Ryuji Goda, Wataru Kurahashi, Yukio Terada and Suyeon Jung. Two of these survivors - Kim Daejin (Terada) and Ji Yeongmin (Kurahashi), as a result, vowed revenge on the Dojima Family and the Tojo Clan. The massacre is shown in Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2, and exact events that night are revealed throughout the plot.
==Background==
The Jingweon Mafia was known to be an especially violent gang, terrorizing the streets of Kamurocho. During the 1970s, the gang wrestled with the Dojima Family for control of the area. In 1980, Sohei Dojima, patriarch of the Dojima Family, found out that the Jingweon were coming together in a warehouse to throw a Christmas party. Thus, he sent his lieutenants, Futoshi Shimano and Shintaro Kazama (who disagreed with Dojima and was intending to let the Jingweon go free), to deal with the Jingweon.
==Massacre==
On the night of Christmas Eve, 1980, Shimano and Kazama set off from their bases - Kazama from the Kazama Family Office on Tenkaichi Street. Upon hearing that Kazama would not be visiting Sunflower Orphanage as he did each Christmas, a young Kazuma Kiryu runs out to Kazama and follows him when Kazama tells him not to.
Upon entering the warehouse, Shimano guns down the Jingweon Mafia members with passion, while Kazama takes the Jingweon leader to a side room, negotiating with him to save the lives of his gang if he leaves Tokyo for good. At some point before this, the building is set on fire by the Dojima Family. Jiro Kawara arrives, going into the warehouse with his gun ready.
Kiryu, mistakenly believing that the Jingweon leader, who was in a threatening position, was putting Kazama in danger, runs in to the room with a blunt weapon, having followed Kazama to the warehouse. As a result, the Jingweon leader, thinking that this confirmed his suspicions that the move was a trap, turns to attack Kiryu. Kazama shoots him, and he crawls out to the corridor, where the events unfolding are seen by Kawara. The Jingweon boss calls Kazama a "lying dog" in Korean. Kazama puts more bullets in him (not enough to finish him off on the spot) and walks over him. He sees Murai, another Jingweon member, struggling on the floor, but does not shoot him and passes by.
Upon Kazama leaving, Kawara goes to the Jingweon leader, who beckons him to save his wife (Suyeon Jung) and child (Ryuji Goda), who are upstairs. As Kawara does so, Murai crawls over to the Jingweon leader and cries as he dies. Shimano, passing by, sees this and shoots Murai in the back - however, this is not enough to kill him.
Both Yukio Terada and Wataru Kurahashi survive, their friend, Ko, having charged out into the hallway and shot by Shimano. Shimano walks in the room, and not seeing Terada and Kurahashi (hiding behind office desks), leaves. Kazama walks in as Terada and Kurahashi come out from the desks to attempt an escape, and after examining them at gunpoint, he spares them and tells them not to waste their lives as they are still young. Kiryu looks on from behind the doorframe, and follows Kazama as he leaves.
==Aftermath and Legacy==
The massacre established the Dojima Family as the controller of Kamurocho and heavily damaged the Jingweon Mafia. Terada and Kurahashi vow revenge, eventually leading to the rebuilding of the Jingweon Mafia and its resurgence in the 21st century. Terada infiltrates the Omi Alliance (having been led to it by Kazama, who pitied him) and then the Tojo Clan, while Kurahashi infiltrates the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (his presence as a Jingweon survivor is known by Kawara, who chooses not to share the information as he believed in Kurahashi to not turn back to his old ways).
Murai is brought into safety by Kawara, and is given a false identity. Haunted by his guilt, Murai lives out the rest of his days in Osaka until he kills himself after the Jingweon Mafia gets onto him.
Kawara also brings Jung Suyeon and her son into his care, falling in love with her and having a child (who would later become Kaoru Sayama). However, Jung is killed by vengeful members of the Jingweon Mafia.