Someya Family

The Someya Family (, Someya-ikka) is a yakuza family and Tojo Clan subsidiary that appears in Yakuza 6.
== History ==
=== Background ===
The Someya Family was first established after the Little Asia fire of 2015.
In 2015, Sugai conspired with one of his business partners, Tsuneo Iwami, to displace the Tojo's current leadership and usurp control of the clan. At Sugai's behest, Someya started the aforementioned Little Asia fire, which allowed the Saio Triad to buy most of the property in Little Asia for next to nothing and move into the territory. On Tsuneo's orders, the Saio started a war with the Tojo Clan for control of Kamurocho, causing the police to arrest most of the Tojo's leaders in order to appease public outcry sparked by the violence. Sugai then managed to establish himself as acting chairman of the Tojo and, as a reward for his role in the silent coup, Sugai promoted Someya and allowed him to start his own family.
=== Yakuza 6 ===
In 2016, when Kazuma Kiryu comes to Kamurocho to search for his adoptive daughter, Haruka Sawamura, Patriarch Someya has one of his men spy on Kiryu to ensure that he doesn't interfere with Sugai and Tsuneo's plans. Kiryu eventually realizes he's being tailed while investigating the place where Haruka had been hit by a car and he confronts his pursuer. After pressuring him, the thug reveals who'd sent him and Kiryu travels to Tojo Clan Headquarters to meet with Someya and Sugai. Both men claim that they only sent their spy to ensure Kiryu was not attacked by Saio Triad members due to his past affiliation with the Clan, which Kiryu accepts for the time being, but he warns them to not interfere in his business while he's in town.
About a week later, Someya travels to Hiroshima with a large group of his men to swear an oath of brotherhood with Kanji Koshimizu, the Captain of the Yomei Alliance. There he has another run-in with Kiryu while he's atop Mount Senkoji talking with Kiyomi Kasahara, who coincidentally happened to be Someya's ex-wife. That same night, Kiryu, Tsuyoshi Nagumo, Takaaki Matsunaga, Yuta Usami and Naoto Tagashira break into the hotel where Someya was staying in order to rescue Kiyomi, whom they believed had been kidnapped by the Someya Family. During the break-in, the interlopers fight with several of Someya's men in order to get to his penthouse and, ultimately, Kiryu fights Patriarch Someya himself when he encounters him. After he's beaten, Someya reveals that he hadn't kidnapped Kiyomi: It was actually Chairman Heizo Iwami of the Yomei Alliance who'd taken her in order to get Kiryu to witness Someya's oath with Koshimizu and give it his approval to keep the Omi Alliance from opposing a Tojo-Yomei partnership.
Some time later, Kiryu returns to Kamurocho to try to locate a man named Shu Tatsukawa, whom he believed to be the father of Haruka's son, Haruto. During this stay in Tokyo, Kiryu meets Saio leader Big Lo and arranges to talk about Tatsukawa at the ruins of the Shangri-La soapland. When Someya learns of this through his spies, he approaches Kiryu and offers to go with him to the meeting, since he allegedly wanted to discuss peace terms with Lo. However, at the meeting itself, Someya double-crosses Kiryu and tries to kill Lo, only for Kiryu to stop him and beat him in another fight.
After Tsuneo Iwami has displaced his father and has taken control of the Yomei Alliance, he sets his sights on assassinating Kiryu to consolidate his power. Someya warns Kiryu about this and proposes that they team up to take out both Tsuneo and Sugai, after which Someya would seize control of the Tojo Clan and prevent anyone from harming him. Kiryu turns down this offer, since it would mean betraying Daigo Dojima.
Sugai and Tsuneo catch wind of Someya's treacherous intent and they have Kiyomi kidnapped once again to blackmail Someya into killing Kiryu for them. When Kiryu raids the Sugai Family office atop the Millennium Tower, Someya ambushes him in Sugai's study and tries to kill him to save Kiyomi. Only after beating Someya does Kiryu realize what has happened, as Sugai and Tsuneo show him via a live video-feed that they have Kiyomi captive. Tsuneo offers to spare her life if Kiryu kills Someya before he counts to three. When Kiryu cannot bring himself to do it, Someya commits seppuku to appease Tsuneo.
Soon after, Sugai and Tsuneo would be defeated by Kiryu and his friends and Daigo Dojima would be restored to the Tojo chairmanship. Following Patriarch Someya's death and the reveal of his treasonous conspiracy with Sugai, the Someya Family was disbanded.
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