Much to their surprise, Daigo Dojima visits them both, accompanied by Shoyo Toma, a local politician. In gratitude for his help, Nakahara promises to never evict Kiryu from his land. Much to his joy, Nakahara sees that while she was being held captive, Saki drew a picture of him where she called him her true father. Just after Tetsuo's defeat, Nakahara arrives and is reunited with Saki. Tamashiro tries to kill Kiryu to send a message, but he is easily beaten.
Kiryu confronts Tamashiro and discovers the reason behind the kidnapping: Tamashiro wants the land the Ryudo own so that he can sell it to the Tokyo investors, and he intends to use Saki as blackmail, threatening to kill her if the land isn't given to him. After investigating, Kiryu discovers that Saki did meet with her birth mother, but said mother then proceeded to kidnap her and take her to her new boyfriend, Tetsuo Tamashiro, patriarch of the Ryudo's main rivals, the Tamashiro Family. Saki has gone missing and, while a depressed Nakahara is convinced that she left to go back with her birth mother, Rikiya and Mikio fear she may have been kidnapped. In early 2008, the Ryudo Family's lieutenants approach Kiryu once again, but this time with a plea for help. Despite a sizeable cash offer to vacate, Kiryu refuses.
Nakahara explains to Kiryu that investors from Tokyo are seeking to buy up land in Okinawa for the construction of a beachfront resort, and Nakahara needs his tenants to leave before he can sell the land. The girl suffers from post-traumatic mutism after seeing her birth father kill himself and can only communicate through her sketchbook drawings. On Kiryu's command, the two lieutenants to introduce Kiryu to their patriarch, Shigeru Nakahara, as well as his own adoptive daughter, Saki. They are the family's two lieutenants, Rikiya Shimabukuro and Mikio Aragaki.Īfter the confrontation turns hostile, Rikiya challenges Kiryu to a fight and is swiftly defeated. Kiryu seeks out said Ryudo men, and finds them in Downtown Ryukyu. However, trouble looms when they start getting eviction notices from their landlords, the Ryudo Family, and some of their goons start menacingly loitering outside the orphanage. After Kiryu talks up all the fights he will have to get into to protect Daigo, and after beating him in a fight himself, Majima agrees.Ī few months further down the line, Kiryu and Haruka are living in the Okinawan city of Ryukyu, running the beachfront Morning Glory Orphanage and taking care of eight other children: Taichi, Ayako, Koji, Eri, Mitsuo, Riona, Shiro and Izumi. He requests that he rejoin the Tojo Clan and help out its newly-appointed sixth chairman, Daigo Dojima, since he fears many of the Clan's veterans will refuse to accept his leadership due to his youth. After bidding goodbye to their various loved ones, Kiryu seeks out Goro Majima to ask him for a favor. Kazuma Kiryu and his adoptive daughter, Haruka Sawamura, are preparing to depart Tokyo and move to Okinawa, where Kiryu will run an orphanage. The game's plot begins four months after the ending of the previous game, in March of 2007. However, this game also introduces Okinawa as a setting for the first time, featuring Downtown Ryukyu and Morning Glory Beach as explorable sandboxes. Much like all previous games in the main franchise, Yakuza 3 is primarily set in the Tokyo district of Kamurocho.