Kuroha Family

The Kuroha Family (, Kuroha-gumi) is a yakuza group and subsidiary to the Omi Alliance featured in Yakuza 5. It is based in Kobe, Kansai.
== History ==
The Kuroha Family was founded as a subsidiary to the Omi Alliance at an unknown point.
During the 1990's, the Kuroha Family was heavily involved with baseball match-fixing in Nagoya. Through bribing coaches from various schools and threatening other players, the Kuroha Family ensured Yuki Sawada's success as a baseball prodigy of Chukyo Academy, with the goal of using him to enable match-fixing when he entered the major leagues. On one of these occassions, the Kuroha Family hired students from Kamuro Tech to threaten the opposing school of Chukyo Academy, but the day before the match, the students of Kamuro Tech were beaten up by Daigo Dojima and hospitalized.
By 1997, the Nagoya Family was created in secret by the Kuroha Family: with leader of the Nagoya Family, Fujita, and Sawada being the only ones aware of the connections between the two groups. Through word of mouth, the Nagoya Family's presence became known throughout Nagoya, causing the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance to leave. While most members of the Nagoya Family believed they were protecting Nagoya from the yakuza, the actual purpose was to remove baseball betters from the two groups from Nagoya, allowing the Kuroha Family to profit fully. Around this time, Sawada joined the Tokyo Gigants, entering the major leagues.
On June 8, 1997, the Kuroha Family had match-fixed game between the Nagoya Wyverns and the Tokyo Gigants. During this game, the Tokyo Gigant's poor performance was becoming suspicious, so the Nagoya Wyverns benched Atsushi Sakai in place of Tatsuo Shinada, someone unlikely to hit and unaware of the match-fixing; that game, Shinada landed a home run. That same day, the Kuroha Family fabricated evidence that he was match-fixing, and got him permanently banned from baseball. Subsequently, Fujita left baseball, and the match-fixing ended.
By 2012, the leader of the Kuroha Family, Tsubasa Kurosawa, became the seventh chairman of the Omi Alliance, but was also diagnosed with lung cancer.
In December 2012, Fujita found out Shinada was starting to dig into details surrounding the match-fixing, and ordered the Nagoya Family to kill him. However, attempts on Shinada's life were unsuccessful, and he learned the truth behind the match-fixing. By this point, Fujita grew a guilty conscience, and wrote a confession, aiming to publish it on the front page of newspapers. The day before Fujita was to publish it, he presented the confession to Kurosawa. However, Kurosawa shot him in the head, burned the paper, placed a gun with Naoki Katsuya's fingerprints in Fujita's hands, and left behind an Omi Alliance pin.
Further details of the Kuroha Family are unknown, with Kurosawa presumably succumbing to his illness eventually.
== Trivia ==
* The name Kuroha () translates to "black feather(s)". This is a reference to its patriarch, whose surname has "Kuro" () in it, and has the given name Tsubasa () meaning "wing(s)".
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