Hajime Ogasawara

Hajime Ogasawara (, Ogasawara Hajime) is a minor antagonist featured in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. He is the director and co-founder of Bleach Japan.
== Profile ==
===Appearance===
Ogasawara is a tall man and has a generally gleeful facial expression usually. He has side-parted medium-length hair with sides tucked behind his ears.
===Attire===
He wears a gray pinstriped business suit with a white undershirt and teal tie. He also wears black dress shoes.
===Personality===
Ogasawara is a soft-spoken man with a professional-looking exterior. Underneath the professional facade he is rather manipulative, and while calculating, fails to sense consequences and lets his overconfidence take over him at times.
==Background==
Ogasawara attended and majored in politics and economics, and he met Ryo Aoki in their classes together. He noticed Aoki's wealth, and decided to establish connection with him. After graduation, Ogasawara returned to Japan with Aoki. Subsequently, Ogsawara learned of Aoki's true identity, along with his true wealth and underworld connections, and chose to continue following him. Around this time, Ogasawara had been informed by Aoki of the idea of Bleach Japan, and later that year, the two co-founded Bleach Japan.
In 2010, Ogsawara was appointed director of Bleach Japan, allowing Aoki to enter his political race.
In mid-2019, Ogasawara and his family moved to Yokohama.
== Yakuza: Like a Dragon: 2019 ==
Ogasawara is told to go to Isezaki Ijincho in an effort to pinpoint Yutaka Ogikubo's seemlingly endless source of funding. He promises Akira Mabuchi - who had been dissatisfied with the situation of Yokohama's underworld - a place in the Omi Alliance to convince him to partner with him, as he has strong influence as the Yokohama Liumang's second-in-command. To find a lead, Ogasawara orders Mabuchi to instigate war among the Ijin Three. 
Though Ogasawara did not approve any murder, Mabuchi suggests killing Isao Nonomiya, as his soapland Otohime Land is on Seiryu Clan territory. Ogasawara informs Aoki of the plan and prepares a back-up due to Mabuchi's being risky, but Aoki approves of Mabuchi's plan. He monitors the situation to see if Ogikubo's connection to the Ijincho underworld makes itself visible.
Ogasawara learns from Yu Nanba of Ogikubo's counterfeit operation. With Aoki's assistance, he teams up with Reiji Ishioda, who assists Bleach Japan's secretly Omi-backed raid on the Geomijul. Ishioda and Nanba are defeated by Ichiban Kasuga and his friends, giving Seonhee enough time to burn evidence that would implicate Ogikubo. Ogasawara is captured and interrogated afterward, and he reveals what he knows of Aoki.
For his failure, Aoki orders the Omi to have him killed. He uses Ogasawara's death to further bolster his popularity and announce Sota Kume as an election candidate.
== Gallery ==
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==Notes==
==References==
Category:Bleach Japan
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Characters
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Antagonists