Kirijo Group

The Kirijo Group is a globally operating multinational trading company that appears in the Persona series. It is said to be involved with almost every aspect of daily life and finding someone that doesn't know the Kirijo Group is virtually impossible.
== Appearances ==
*Persona 3 / FES / Portable / Reload: Company owned by Takeharu Kirijo, then Mitsuru Kirijo
*Persona 4 Arena / Ultimax: Owner of Shadow Operatives
*Persona x Detective Naoto
==Profile==
===Persona 3===
The Kirijo Group was originally a part of the Nanjo Group, but later separated from them. Despite this, the Kirijo Group works closely with the Nanjo Group and has a business motto of "Two in harmony surpasses one in perfection". 
Its original leader, Kouetsu Kirijo originally wanted used his research with Shadows to do good, but went mad and began researching on how to summon Nyx to annihilate every human being in the world. Eventually his wish came true as his experiments caused a huge explosion which in turn leads to the creation of Tartarus and the Dark Hour, killing him and numerous other researchers. As a cover-up for the incident, Gekkoukan High School was built on top of the site where the experiment took place, but Tartarus still overwrites it at the end of each day where the Dark Hour phenomenon would take place. The Kirijo Group maintains control over the school (allowing Mitsuru to do things that would otherwise breach her position as a student council president such as allowing Aigis to enroll despite she is a robot that supposedly cannot go to school), and a statue bearing their motto is located in the lobby of the school.
The Kirijo Group created Evokers to aid with the summoning of a Persona, and they created a series of Anti-Shadow Weapons such as Aigis and Labrys.
In order to better understand the Dark Hour, the Kirijo Group rounded up kids on the streets and artificially awakened their Personas in order to have them investigate Tartarus. However, they had to take experimental medication so that their powers wouldn't kill them; only Strega (Takaya Sakaki, Jin Shirato and Chidori Yoshino) survived out of the original hundred, although this drastically reduces their would-be lifespan and the psychological impacts of the horrific experiments would lead to them succumbing to nihilism and going insane.
==Leaders==
*Kouetsu Kirijo: ?-1999
*Takeharu Kirijo: 1999-2009
*Mitsuru Kirijo: November, 2009
==Scientists during the Shadow Incident==
*Eiichiro Takeba
*Shuji Ikutsuki
*Yuu Kimijima
*Souta Aizawa
*Kyouka Sayama
*Tetsuma Tsuge
==Anti-Shadow Weapons==
*Aigis
*Labrys
*Unit 024
*Genesis
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