Ryudo Family (Yakuza: Like a Dragon)

The Ryudo Family (, Ryūdō-kai) is a primarily Kamurocho-based yakuza organization featured in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. It is a subsidiary of the Omi Alliance and later the Tokyo Omi Alliance.
== Background ==
Between 2017 and 2019, Yosuke Tendo's Ryudo Family took advantage of the dismantling of the Tojo Clan by the corrupt Tokyo Governor Ryo Aoki's Kamurocho 3K Plan and bribed TMPD Commissioner Juro Horinouchi to allow them to take over former Tojo territory unimpeded. Thanks to the large acquisition of turf within former Tojo territory, the Ryudo went from a relatively unknown group in the Omi Alliance hierarchy to one of its most powerful ones, rivaled only by the Watase Family, the Ishioda Family and the Arakawa Family.
== Involvement ==
=== Yakuza: Like a Dragon ===
In 2019, the Ryudo Family and the Ishioda Family both conspire with Akira Mabuchi of the Yokohama Liumang to try to take over Yokohama. The plan involved Mabuchi instigating a war between the members of the Ijin Three, after which he would overthrow the Liumang's leader, Tianyou Zhao, and lead the Liumang to victory over the Seiryu Clan and the Geomijul with support from the Ryudo and the Ishioda. Afterwards, Mabuchi would rule over Yokohama as an emissary of the Omi Alliance and the Ryudo and Ishioda Families would be granted territory within the city as well. Unfortunately for them, Mabuchi's plot fails and he is unable to overthrow Zhao; resulting in his banishment from the city.
Later on, when Omi Chairman Masaru Watase and Tojo Chairman Daigo Dojima announced that both the Omi and the Tojo would officially be disbanded, Ryudo Patriarch Tendo sided with Watase and Dojima against most of the other Omi patriarchs present at the announcement ceremony. Tendo and his men aided Ichiban Kasuga and his friends in defending Watase and Dojima from the Omi officers who opposed the dissolution and then escorting them to the Osaka City Hall to formalize the dissolution of both yakuza groups.
In spite of this initial appearance that Tendo intended to dissolve his own family and leave the yakuza; it was all merely a ruse. In truth, Tendo aided the dissolution of the Omi because, in the ensuing power vaccum, he hoped to rally all of the former Omi families that controlled Tokyo into a new organization with him as its leader: the Tokyo Omi Alliance. In order to court support from Governor Aoki for this plan, Tendo assassinated Aoki's estranged father, Masumi Arakawa, who had been instrumental in the dissolution of the Tojo and the Omi; something that had impeded Aoki's political plans.
After the Arakawa Family falls apart following Patriarch Arakawa's death and Captain Jo Sawashiro's arrest following his murder of Ryuhei Hoshino, the Ryudo Family are left as the strongest yakuza group in Tokyo and Tendo succeeds in forming the new Tokyo Omi Alliance with him as its first Chairman. However, in order to gain Aoki's support, the Tokyo Governor demands that Tendo find a supposed recording of him ordering Captain Sawashiro to assassinate Hoshino, which Sawashiro had supposedly hidden in the Arakawa Family office. In truth, this recording did not exist, and Aoki and Tendo had been told about it by the Kasuga Party in the hopes of luring Tendo into a trap. 
When Tendo goes to search the office, Ichiban and his friends face off against him in an extended battle and manage to defeat him. Afterwards, they have the hitman Mirror Face disguise himself as Tendo and set-up Aoki so that he would admit to his crimes while being recorded. After the recording is leaked, Aoki's reputation is in tatters and arrest warrants are issued for him and for Tendo.
It is unknown what became of the Ryudo Family after Tendo's arrest, but it is likely that the group disbanded without its patriarch.
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