Ishioda Family

The Ishioda Family (, Ishioda-gumi) is a subsidiary of the Omi Alliance and later newly formed Tokyo Omi Alliance featured in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
== Background ==
In 2018, the Ishioda Family; led by Patriarch Reiji Ishioda, 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 Ishioda Family 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 Ryudo Clan and the Arakawa Family.
== Yakuza: Like a Dragon ==
In late 2019, Patriarch Ishioda was informed by Hajime Ogasawara of Bleach Japan (who were covertly working with the Omi Alliance) that the Ijin Three had a secret money counterfeiting facility in the headquarters of the Geomijul in Yokohama. Hoping to capture the counterfeiting infrastructure to use it for himself, Ishioda mobilized his family into Yokohama, disguised as members of Bleach Japan, to storm the Geomijul's base and take control of their money printing press. Patriarch Ishioda himself led the mob of his goons in their attack against the Geomijul, piloting a wrecking ball to smash the barricades that the Korean mafia had set up to protect themselves. Unfortunately for Ishioda, Ichiban Kasuga and his friends aided the Geomijul in holding off the attacking yakuza long enough for them to destroy the counterfeiting machines to keep them from falling into the hands of the Omi Alliance.
A few weeks later, the Ishioda Family and the Ryudo Clan both conspired with Akira Mabuchi of the Yokohama Liumang in another plot to gain power in Yokohama. Mabuchi was tasked with 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 Omi. Afterwards, Mabuchi would rule over Yokohama as an emissary of the Omi Alliance and the Ryudo Clan and Ishioda Family would be granted territory within the city as well. Unfortunately for them, Mabuchi's plot failed and he was unable to overthrow Zhao; resulting in his banishment from the city.
After Omi Captain Masaru Watase and Tojo Clan Chairman Daigo Dojima managed to dissolve both of their yakuza groups, various power players within the former Omi Alliance scrambled to try to re-establish the organization and establish themselves as its new Chairman. Amongst the Omi's patriarchs in Kanto, Patriarch Ishioda competed with Yosuke Tendo of the Ryudo Clan and Jo Sawashiro of the Arakawa Family to form a new Tokyo Omi Alliance. 
After Sawashiro was arrested for the murder of Seiryu Chairman Ryuhei Hoshino on Governor Ryo Aoki's orders, Aoki feared Sawashiro would testify against him. In order to procure the Governor's support in the Omi power struggle, the Ishioda Family hired the master of disguise hitman Mirror Face to infiltrate the prison where Sawashiro was being held and assassinate him. However, Patriarch Ishioda's plans were once again hampered by Ichiban Kasuga and his friends, who discovered his scheme and raided the Ishioda Family's Yokohama base to capture Mirror Face and prevent the hit. Unfortunately for Ishioda, Tendo of the Ryudo Clan had also discovered his Yokohama base and sent one of his goons to bomb the place while the Kasuga Party attacked it, in order to eliminate his last rival in the Omi power struggle. Though it is not explicitly confirmed, it seems that Patriarch Ishioda was killed in the bombing.
It is unclear what became of the Ishioda Family after the Patriarch's presumable death, but it is likely that they disbanded without him.
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