Takeshi Kido

**Chief Inspector Takeshi Kido** is the cold and calculating head of the Kempeitai stationed in San Francisco at the Nippon Building. He is tasked with maintaining order, driven by a strict code of honor directed by military directives. His every action is done in service to this mandate.
As the Japanese were withdrawing from the Pacific States, he made a deal to be a Special Adviser to the Yakuza to allow his son to freely go back home to Japan.

## Biography

### Background

During World War II, he fought in the battle at the Solomon Islands and as the war ended, he was one of the soldiers who helped liberate the Manzanar US concentration camp. He left his family in Koriyama City, Fukushima prefecture, and maybe his home town.

In 1947, he was appointed as the Chief Inspector of the Kempeitai.

### Season One

He is often portrayed together with Trade Minister Tagomi and his assistant Hiroyuki Yoshida. As a ranking officer of the Kempeitai, his primary duty is hunting down members of the Resistance. He apprehends and interrogates Frank about the whereabouts of Juliana Crain. He threatens to kill Frank's sister and her children to pressure Frank. When fake films are found Kido presumes Frank is innocent, but Frank's sister and her children were already killed.

After the assassination attempt on the Crown Prince, Kido is tasked with finding the perpetrator, pretending to believing it to be Frank. However, it is revealed by the leader of the Yakuza to be a Nazi plot to lure the Empire into a war between the two countries. Kido decides to commit seppuku and pretend his investigation was fruitless to save his Empire from destruction at the hands of the Germans. He is stopped, however.

### Season Two

Kido investigates the assault on a Kempeitai guard post. He tries to find the woman who escaped the scene, which is Juliana Crain. However, she manages to elude him by seeking political asylum in the Greater Nazi Reich of New York City. He tries to get her back, but Obergruppenführer John Smith protects her from this fate.

Back in the Japanese Pacific States, a explosion in the Kempeitai building inside of San Francisco almost kills Kido, but he survives. The explosion kills Kido's assistant, Hiroyuki Yoshida and it leaves him stunned. Trade Minister Tagomi was also present at the time of the explosion, however he was in a car safely away from the building. Kido is then promoted, as all other senior members in the Kempeitai building have died, including General Hidehisa Onoda.

### Season Three

Kido tracks Frank down in Denver and with the help of the Yakuza, kidnapped him. As they dragged Frank away, he told Ed to tell Juliana that he loved her. They drove to the site of Manzanar, and atop a mesa overlooking the desert, Kido offered Frank the honorable death by beheading, which Frank accepted.

## Appearance & Personality

Kido is a middle-aged Japanese man, probably in his early forties. He is dedicated to his duties to the Japanese Empire and will stop at nothing to fulfill them. Although he is tough and very dedicated to his job, Kido also has a softer side of his personality which can see in the relationship between Kido and Gina throughout Season Two and Season Three.

## Relationships

In Season Two, Episode Two "The Road Less Traveled", he states he has two children and a wife back in his origin country of Japan.

## Appearances

 "**Three Monkeys**"**Appears**

 "**Kintsugi**"**Appears**

 "**History Ends**"**Appears**

 "**All Serious Daring**"**Appears**

## Quotes

"There comes a time when all men must bear the weight of their responsibility." - *Season 1: A Way Out*

"We are all subject to rules, Miss Crain, and if we fail to live by them, the consequences are severe." - *Season 1: The New Normal*