Japanese Association of Assassins

## Biographical Information

### Japanese Name

**Japanese Association of Assassins** (日に本ほん殺ころし屋や連れん盟めい, *Nihon Koroshiya Renmei*?); **Satsuren** (殺サツ連レン, *****Satsuren*****? official English: "JAA")

## Professional Status

### Affiliation

Japan

The **Japanese Association of Assassins** (日に本ほん殺ころし屋や連れん盟めい, *Nihon Koroshiya Renmei*?, lit. "Japanese Hitmen League/Federation") — **JAA** for short (**Satsuren** (殺サツ連レン, *****Satsuren*****?) in Japanese) — is an official assassin organization based in Japan. It is the largest of its kind at a member count of 1,000, with just under 400 of those being professional assassins.

Due to the actions of Slur and his group, over a quarter of JAA assassins have been purged.

## Overview

As the largest assassination organization in Japan, the JAA effectively holds a monopoly over the business. The JAA is described to be an extremely wealthy organization; the JAA Tokyo Bureau is vast and extensive with enough infrastructure to resemble part of a city.

In addition to assassination jobs, the JAA offers a more diverse range of services including weapons manufacturing or repairing public spaces damaged during assassination missions. Clients pay a fee to the JAA for these jobs, who then pass the assignment onto the appropriate individual.

Information is discreetly transmitted to assassins. Examples include highly expensive movie rentals and encoded scratch cards.

Uda describes the JAA has having good pay and good benefits. Though allegedly, 30% of an assassin's earnings are taken by the JAA and refusal to pay this fee results in death.[Citation needed]

### Agencies

The JAA can outsource its client's requests to agencies for an agency fee. However due to the actions of Slur and his group, many of these agencies have been wiped out. The only named agency is Dondenkai Ltd, of which Boiled and Obiguro are members of. Nagumo mentions at least 30 agencies, all of which are defunct after attacks by Slur.[Citation needed]

## Becoming an Assassin

Joining the JAA requires typically formal education at a dedicated school for assassination. Exceptions such as Osaragi exist, who Nagumo recalls never attended any assassin school. Assassin schools teach aspiring assassins a variety of skills ranging from using guns to close-quarters combat and poisoning. It is here that successful students may acquire assassin licenses, either upon graduation or during their studies. These **assassin licenses** seemingly expire only when the bearer dies.

There are two known assassin schools:

1. Japan Clear Creation (JCC)
2. Kansai Region Assassin Institute

According to Hotta, a JCC student, assassins cannot work unless they go through the JAA.

## The Order

*Main article: Order*
The **Order** (ORDERオーダー, *Ōdā*?) is a special group of JAA assassins that, as the name suggests, maintains order in the assassin world whenever friction arises, i.e.: dealing with anything that may prove troublesome for Japan's assassin industry if not dealt with immediately. The Order is made up of the strongest assassins in the JAA and is thus a very small group. Members of the Order are so powerful that the JAA rarely assigns several members to a mission; having the entire Order one one assignment has never been seen.

## Members

### Staff

* Sei Asaki (Chairman)
* Erio Muto (Executive)

### Assassins

* Boiled (Dondenkai)
* Obiguro (Dondenkai)
* Tatsu (Dondenkai)
* Heisuke Mashimo (Freelance)

### Order Members

* Nagumo
* Osaragi
* Shishiba
* Takamura
* Kamihate

### Ex-members

* Taro Sakamoto (Order member, retired)
* Shin Asakura (Assassin, quit)
* Etsuko Satoda (Assassin, retired)
* Slur (Student, quit)
* Satoru Yotsumura (Order member, banished)
* Uda (Office worker, deceased)
* Kanaguri (Order member, expelled)
* Soichi Amo (Chairman, unknown)
* Hyo (Order member, deceased)

## Trivia

* Nagumo claims to have a "gold assassin license", though how this differs from a regular license is unknown.
* The JAA Tokyo Bureau has visitor passes.
	+ Trespassers on JAA Tokyo Bureau grounds are eliminated as per JAA protocol.

1. ↑ *Sakamoto Days* Manga: Chapter 77 (Page 16)