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Along with his sister Yuko, Nishiki grew up with Kiryu and Yumi Sawamura in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage, before joining Kazama's yakuza family in his teenage years. In 1995, Nishiki fatally shoots his boss, Sohei Dojima, to protect Yumi after she is kidnapped and sexually assaulted by Dojima.
So did Kiryu beating him down knocked some sense in Nishiki to at least save his old beloved friends? Or did he just wanted to do something that he feels is truly his choice even if it meant his death?
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Background
The Nishikiyama family was first established in 1996 as a subsidiary of the Kazama Family after its first patriarch, Akira Nishikiyama was promoted within the organization. Initially, it was his oath brother Kazuma Kiryu who was supposed to be promoted and granted his own family, but after Kiryu took the fall for the murder of Dojima Family patriarch Sohei Dojimain 1995, Nishikiyama was granted the honor instead. In 2000, the Nishikiyama Family branched away from the Kazama Family and became...
Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami
By 2005, the Nishikiyama Family had become one of the three largest groups within the Tojo Clan, rivaled only by the Kazama Family and the Shimano Family. On December of that year, the Nishikiyama Family kickstarted a civil war within the Tojo Clan by disclosing the theft of the Tojo's 10 billion yen reserves from Toto Bank to the Clan's patriarchs and by assassinating the Clan's Third Chairman, Masaru Sera. In the ensuing weeks, the Nishikiyama Family would fight against the Shimano Family t...
Yakuza 2
By 2006, following the disbanding of the Shimano Family; the Nishikiyama Family absorbed their remaining members to become the largest single group within the Tojo Clan. During the Tojo-Omi War of 2006, Patriarch Shindo conspired with Omi Patriarch Toranosuke Sengoku to betray the Tojo Clan. While the Sengoku Family invaded Tokyo, Shindo and the Nishikiyama Family staged a coup at the Clan headquarters, taking the leadership hostage and executing those who refused to support Shindo and Sengok...
The Nishikiyama Family is strongly associated with the theme Intelligence for Violence, including its remixes (Ideal For Violence, Independence for Violence, Innocence for Violence).The Nishikiyama Family crest is a rebus monogramwhich spells out "Nishikiyama" (錦山) by using a triangular mountain drawing to represent the 山 (yama) kanji of the name Nishikiyama (since "yama" is J...Nishikiyama learns that Kiryu went to meet Utabori from Reina and calls Kiryu to ask him if he learned about Mizuki's body, before stating that he wishes to meet him in private at Serena. Nishikiyama and Kiryu finally meet again after 10 years.
Jul 27, 2023 · After Yakuza 6, it felt like that was it for Kiryu and we were going to move on with Ichiban in the mainline games. What was it like internally deciding to bring Kiryu back to lead two major...
- Michael Higham
Kazuma Kiryu covered up Nishiki's murder and served 10 years in prison. It is revealed in a flashback during Yakuza 2 by Kashiwagi that he was behind the Jingweon mafia massacre in 1980, ordering Kazama and Futoshi Shimano to kill all 46 members of the mafia.
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In the original game back in the Playstation 2 era, despite how little I've knew of Nishiki prior to his descent to villainy I still figured even despite his dour attitude that he was a valued friend to Kiryu and Yumi.
