Mishima Zaibatsu

### Established

Pre WW2 (founded by Jinpachi)Pre Tekken 1 (current name given by Heihachi 44 years ago)

### HQ location

Japan (initially)
Hell
Around the world

### Leader

Heihachi Mishima (TKxHH, TK7, TK4, TK3 & TK1)
Jin Kazama (TK6)
Jinpachi Mishima (TK5 & pre TK1)
Kazuya Mishima (TK2)

**Mishima Zaibatsu**, roughly translated as **Mishima Financial Group** (MFG), is a giant multinational conglomerate in the *Tekken* universe.

## Description

### Background

The Mishima Zaibatsu was originally founded by Jinpachi Mishima during World War II. However, Heihachi has taken over this company as Jinpachi lost it to his son. After attempting to retake the company from his son, Jinpachi was imprisoned by Heihachi, and vanished from the business world at the same year when Heihachi killed Kazumi and thrown Kazuya off a cliff. Heihachi ran the company for 40 years without the two brief interims. The companies grouped together in the syndicate include the Mishima Financial Empire, the mercenary group known as Tekken Force, and Mishima Industries. The group also owns at least one school, the Mishima Polytechnical, which also serves as a private training ground for their Tekken Force. The Mishima Zaibatsu is the main sponsor of The King of Iron Fist Tournaments.

### Kazuya's Takeover

Kazuya defeated Heihachi in the first tournament and supposedly killed him, then he took over the company. During his time as head of the Zaibatsu, Kazuya increased Heihachi's corrupt practices, expanding the Zaibatsu's military output by buying up and taking over much of Hokkaido for the purpose, kidnapping scientists, trading illegally in animals and conducting experiments on them, alongside other corrupt practices. Two years later, his reign was toppled by Heihachi, who had survived Kazuya's beating, and who then proceeded to throw his son into a volcano after defeating him in a second tournament.

### Jinpachi's Reclaim

During the fifth tournament, Jinpachi regained control of the Mishima Zaibatsu and announced it in order to find an opponent who could kill him before the demon animating his body caused untold destruction. However, he was defeated by Jin at that time and Jin gained control of the Zaibatsu in order to find a cure for his Devil Gene.

### Jin's Takeover

Jin Kazama declared the Mishima Zaibatsu's independence and waged war against the rest of the world to destroy an even greater evil capable of destroying the world. After all, Jin failed to remove his Devil Gene and disappeared after defeating Azazel, but the war continued to rage on between the Zaibatsu and Kazuya's G Corporation, which had now become the Zaibatsu's strongest adversary.

### Jin's Disappearance and Heihachi's Reclaim

At that time, Heihachi was able to reclaim the Zaibatsu. Heihachi sought to win the war and to improve the Zaibatsu's image in the process, trying to paint G Corporation as the real evil by revealing Kazuya's devil form to the world. Public opinion was easily swayed back against the Zaibatsu however, when Kazuya's shot a Zaibatsu satellite out of orbit and the Zaibatsu was blamed for losing control of their own tech. Heihachi was then killed by Kazuya in the volcano. However in years later, he was recovered from his death in the next event.

### Tekken X Hazbin Hotel

Several years without any leader of the Zaibatsu, Heihachi controls the company once again as he was brought back to life by Sir Pentious with his minions and a leader of the Galactic Empire named Darth Vader. During that time, the Zaibatsu has Sir Pentious as the trusted bodyguard of the company and started the collaboration with Galactic Empire. Aside of Tekken Force soldiers and Stormtroopers, the Zaibatsu and Empire now have the Exterminators as their new minions. The Zaibatsu opens the nowadays tournament in Hell with Empire and the two are now controlled in purpose to obtain the Devil Gene and to take over the whole world including Hell by attempting to kill all of the Overlords, the Hazbin Hotel staffs and patients, and their other enemies. Aside of this, the collaboration was also attempted between the Zaibatsu and Immediate Murder Professionals as well as Wild Dog Organization, but was later ended up in terrible failure. While collaborating with I.M.P., the I.M.P. tries to make peace with between Zaibatsu and G Corporation in order to kill Jin, but failed after Blitzo's constant attempt to do this. While then collaborating with Wild Dog Organization, the two worked together to free Verosika with her Crew and Vortex from the prison and managed to do so, but was backfired after Blitzo was enraged by it. Ultimately, the Zaibatsu ended up only focusing to work with the Empire with their current purposes.

## Ownership

The Mishima Zaibatsu has always been run by a direct descendent of Jinpachi Mishima. The constant change of ownership of the Mishima Zaibatsu is one of the *Tekken* series' many novelties. To date, there have been four different owners:

* 21 years before the first King of Iron Fist Tournament, Jinpachi Mishima loses the Zaibatsu to his son, Heihachi Mishima.
* ***Tekken***: Heihachi loses the Zaibatsu to his son, Kazuya Mishima.
* ***Tekken 2***: 2 years later, Kazuya loses the Zaibatsu back to his father Heihachi.
* ***Tekken 3* and *Tekken 4***: 21 years later, Heihachi remains as the owner.
* **Between *Tekken 4* and *Tekken 5***: Jinpachi reclaims the Zaibatsu after Heihachi's disappearance.
* ***Tekken 5***: Jinpachi loses the Zaibatsu to his great-grandson, Jin Kazama.
* ***Tekken 6***: Jin remains as the owner.
* ***Tekken 7***: Heihachi reclaims the Zaibatsu after Jin's disappearance.
* ***Tekken X Hazbin Hotel***: Several years without any owner remaining, Heihachi is recovered from his death and manages to run it again in Hell.

## Members

* Heihachi Mishima - Head of the Mishima Zaibatsu
* Kuma - Tekken Force officer
* Sir Pentious - Bodyguard
* Darth Vader - Bodyguard with the collaboration with Galactic Empire
* Arackniss
* Henroin
* Mordecai Heller
* Blitzo - Former bodyguard for the King of Iron Fist Tournament turned into a traitor

## Corporate Relationships

* G Corporation - Rival company and enemy of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Their rivalry started when Heihachi used the Tekken Force to raid G Corporation research facilities in order to recover Kazuya's body before *Tekken 4*. The G Corp. then later sent an army of self-destructing Jack-4s to attack Kazuya and Heihachi after the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4. This attack succeeded partly in that Heihachi was thrown into a coma, but he ultimately survived. Later, in *Tekken 6*, G Corporation openly opposed the Mishima Zaibatsu and are heralded as saviors for declaring war against them. G Corp. and the Zaibatsu have been at war with one another since shortly before *Tekken 6*.
* Black Hat Organization - Their enemy organization. Black Hat discovers the Zaibatsu immensely eviler ever since he once heard about Kazuya's tragic past life, thus making him have a big problem of relationship between the members of Zaibatsu, let alone Sir Pentious disregards his work with his organization and instead works with the Zaibatsu.
* Galactic Empire - Their best allies. More than that, they also have the Exterminators as their new minions.
* Manji Clan - The clan robbed the Zaibatsu's vault during *Tekken 4*. In *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel*, the clan opposes the Zaibatsu once again.
* Grove Street Families - Their enemy organization, whom the Zaibatsu discovered them being allies with Manji Clan.
* Yggdrasil - Lars' rebel army, formed when a major split occurred within Tekken Force, prior to the events of *Tekken 6*. Their main aim is to hold the Zaibatsu and Jin Kazama accountable for their war crimes. They attacked several Zaibatsu buildings and later, in *Tekken 7*, were the recipient of Zaibatsu attacks when Heihachi ordered Tekken Force to retrieve Jin's body from their facilities.
* Overlords - Their enemies and targets, not to mention most of them are allied with G Corporation.
* Immediate Murder Professionals - Former short-time partner turned into enemy organization. The I.M.P. firstly attempted to start their work with Mishima Zaibatsu, but it has gone messy after Heihachi quickly started his feud with Loona due to her bad behavior at work, resulting the two company as just acquaintances. Not long after this, the I.M.P. constantly attempted to make them peace with G Corporation, but they have failed to do so. Therefore, the I.M.P. just leave them as allies. Despite this, the I.M.P. almost wanted to break up their alliance with the Mishima Zaibatsu due to the fact that they have once freed one of the I.M.P.'s enemy, Verosika, from prison. However, this break up barely occurred as they ultimately apologized the I.M.P. for this. Time after time, the I.M.P. has been progressively losing interest on working with the Mishima Zaibatsu. With anything that makes the matter worse, one of the employee's abusive father, who is one of I.M.P.'s enemies, shows his support to the Mishima Zaibatsu, where the Zaibatsu is proud of this, much to Blitzo's outrage. Later, Blitzo writes a letter to the Mishima Zaibatsu saying the I.M.P. is not comfortable on being around them anymore and the I.M.P. will kill Heihachi soon, thus putting end to their partnership.
* Vital Situation, Swift Elimination - Targeted by them due to the Zaibatsu's excessively illegal activities.
* Violet Systems - Lee’s company and the backer of Yggdrasil. Thus, one of the companies who opposes the Zaibatsu. Lee states that he has been backing many who fight the Zaibatsu.
* Soviet Union/Russia + Spetsnaz - Before *Tekken*, the Soviet military developed the first Jack robots, with a large part of their programming having been done by the Zaibatsu. Many years later, Russia, along with the rest of the world, fell into disarray as a result of the civil unrest caused by the Zaibatsu's covert operations. The Russian government sends a Special Ops soldier to the sixth tournament to stop the disturbances. In *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel*, Dragunov with the Spetsnaz soldiers as well as the Loo Loo Land employees opposes the Zaibatsu once again.
* Wild Dog Organization - Ever collaborated with the Zaibatsu, but later ended up in bad terms with them after Blitzo was enraged by their collaboration to free Verosika from prison, therefore making them frenemies.
* Archers of Sirius - The Archers of Sirius reluctantly formed an alliance with Heihachi's Zaibatsu after he beat their leader, Claudio Serafino. Heihachi initially implied that he wished to work with them in order to exorcise Kazuya and Jin of their devils, but it later transpired he only wished to use the Archers for their information network. In *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel*, the Archers of Sirius discovered the Zaibatsu working with either I.M.P. or Wild Dog Organization, thus making the Archers work with C.H.E.R.U.B. and V.S.S.E. to stop the Zaibatsu.
* C.H.E.R.U.B. - Their enemy organization. The C.H.E.R.U.B. even discovered Zaibatsu not only working with their rival company named I.M.P., but also Exterminators, which are also C.H.E.R.U.B.'s enemies, much to them referring the Zaibatsu as "the incredibly cruel Angels". Furthermore, there was a moment that they also prevented the Mishima Zaibatsu from killing a Poland Prime Minister.
* Japan - The Zaibatsu's headquarters are located in Japan and its owners have also all been Japanese. However, the Japanese government denies the nationality of the man who financially built up and has been with the company the longest (Heihachi), while two other CEOs have declared independence from Japan entirely (Kazuya and Jin).
* D.H.O.R.K.S. - Targeted by them during the operation towards the Mishima family, thus enemy organization.
* Shirai Ryu - Their enemy organization.
* Shadaloo - Their enemy and rival organization in *Street Fighter X Tekken* as well as in *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel* (continuities that are part of the "Namco X Capcom" series).
* United Nations - The UN had sent operatives to monitor the Zaibatsu at least as far back as *Tekken 4*. The Zaibatsu later took over the UN entirely in *Tekken 6*. However in *Tekken 6* and *7*, UN troops were still seen working against and trying to apprehend CEO Jin Kazama for his crimes against the world until in *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel*, they decided to give up targeting Jin as he was seen being in his trip to redemption, leaving the UN stop the Zaibatsu that are filled with new members and collaborate with Galactic Empire as well as slightly I.M.P. and Wild Dog Organization.
* Poland - Whilst Heihachi was the head of the Mishima Zaibatsu in *Tekken 7*, his Tekken Force occupied Poland. Prime Minister Lidia Sobieska has requested the Zaibatsu withdraw their forces, but the Zaibatsu has refused.
* Interpol - The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) have been sending detectives to investigate the Zaibatsu since as far back as *Tekken 2*. They desire to bring to light the Zaibatsu's illegal activities.

## Stages related to Mishima Zaibatsu

* Eternal Darkness
* Mishima Building
* Arena
* Sir Pentious' Airship