Kusanagi

The Kusanagi Megasprawl (草薙県, Kusanagi-ken) is an island-spanning city on the planet of Hyperion, lying on the southwest of the East Albion continent in the island of Fusodo (扶桑道, Fusō-dō). 
Though officially under the administration of the Kusanagi Metropolitan Government (草薙県庁, Kusanagiken-cho), the megasprawl is under the de facto rule of the Akashiro Clan (赤城会, Akashiro-kai) and the various families under it. Due to the unchecked power of the Yakuza in the governance of Kusanagi, even going as far as controlling police duties in the city, residents in Kusanagi often refer to the city as the Akashiro Shogunate (赤城幕府, Akashiro bakufu). 
The Kusanagi Megasprawl's history can be traced back to the exploits of Makoto Noguchi (野口誠, Noguchi Makoto), the Patriarch of the Noguchi Family (野口組, Noguchi-gumi) who was connected to the Four Seas Alliance. He managed to establish an ad-hoc alliance with the cooperative patriarchs of the Fujiwara Family (藤原組, Fujiwara-gumi), the Hidaka Family (日高組, Hidaka-gumi), the Kamiya Family (神谷組, Kamiya-gumi), the Matsumoto Family (松本組, Matsumoto-gumi), and the Miyashita Family (宮下組, Miyashita-gumi) to establish his plan.
The so-called New Japan Plan (新日本計画, Shin Nihon Keikaku) was implemented somewhere in 2149 after the alliance established the necessary long-term logistical networks with the Four Seas Alliance in smuggling debt-slaved Terran Japanese into the Fuso Colony (扶桑集落, Fusō-shūraku) in Hyperion. 
The re-settlement effort experienced rapid pace in urbanization that workers who were commissioned to work in urban expansion efforts were jokingly referred to as the Grass-Cutting Swords (草薙の剣, Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi) after the Imperial Regalia of Japan. The name became popular folklore among the inhabitants that they ended up reporting the settlement's name as Kusanagi after its administrative integration to the Hyperian Planetary Government back in 2155. 
Large portions of the city was destroyed during the Kouin War between the pro-succession and pro-election factions of the Akashiro Clan, most notably the northeast-side part of the city which was renamed into Hakacho {墓町, Haka-chō lit. "Grave District). 
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