[Dig]

Kurokawa Kai 

"A river never flows backwards"

The Kurokawa Kai is a right wing family which was and still remains to be an incredibly powerful

family that involves itself in most, if not all happenings in both Japan and Evocity.

With far reaching business practices the Kurokawa-Kai can gain access to and provide

anything it's associates and benefactors require. They also export items of interest with

absolute secrecy to other distant lands for local entrepreneurs who may be unable to

purchase their products locally.

Though known by many as a legitimate corporate family, the Kurokawa Kai takes part

in many questionable and heinous acts that are usually covered by the local media. 

Members who have left the family and fled to witness protection programs have all been

reported to be missing one or even several fingers from both hands, this practice is known

as Yubitsume and is used primarily by the family as a means of punishment. Most members

undergo incredible tattoo operations which include full body artistry. To cover ones self in tattoos

in Kurokawa tradition is to show one's courage and experience.

Officially registered by many criminal watchlists; the Kurokawa, despite denials by most of it's

affiliates is listed and registered as a Yakuza gang known for gun running, drug distribution,

bootleg product mass production and sales, money laundering, human trafficking and loan sharking.

Granted, the family has also been known to take part in distributing money to those less fortunate and

has also been known to help out in public relief programs, such as helping with the recent 2011 tsunami

in Japan. This is not to diminish their bad doings however it is worth taking note of. 

-Evocity News Network

The Kurokawa Family was founded in 1561 by an unknown middle aged male man who took part as a

Samurai warrior and fought beneath the banner of Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku-Jidai period.

The founder eventually split off from Oda's brigade and took many of his men with him, conquering

nearby provinces and creating a formidable fortress in which he founded his own dynasty and legacy. 

Later, he would go on to form the Kurokawa Kai in the 1580s and the family exists to the present day

and carries on many rituals and traditions of honor, respect and an overall justice they feel only they

have the true power to enforce, they do not believe in the jurisdiction of the government and are often

at odds with them. The Kurokawa Kai are a family that were exiled from Japan in 1978 and were unjustly

labeled as a terrorist organization by the Japanese government, despite the family's constant respect for

both the Japanese people and the country as a whole. The family continues to uphold age old traditions of

justice and honor and maintain their stance as the only true "Last Samurai". -Japanese Scholar, Jin Koshima

The Yakuza originated some time ago in the Central Edo Period in Japan. Thought at the time to have

been made up of primarily criminals and gamblers, the lowest social classes of the period. However as their power 

grew and organizations were formed; The Edo Government was forced to begin giving recognition to these groups 

by granting them special permissions to carry around Wakazishi or Katana swords; which at the time was a right reserved

 solely by Noblemen or Samurai. During this time the Yakuza took up a code of respect and loyalty, fitting 

well with the hierarchy system of the time.  However as time went on these groups

began to become unwanted by the general populace and began to resort to criminal activity by the 1800s. 

Despite being a relatively  obscure group in the western world, the Yakuza have outnumbered mafia families

by ten fold and are the largest criminal organization to exist in the modern age 

"Origins of the Japanese Yakuza" -Robert Filler

The Kurokawa Kai has a structure system shown below

Oyabun: (1/1)
Meiji Yoshirou 
Saiko-Komon: (1/1)
Moriteru Ueshiba
Wakagashira: (1/1)
Ren Tomi
Shateigashira: (0/1)
None Present - N/A
Shingiin: (0/1)
None Present - N/A
Kyodai: (0/5)
None Present - N/A
Kaikei: (1/3)
Icharou Katen
Shatei: (1/8)

Rei Kinjo

Yubitsume.

Yubitsume is the process of amputating a single joint of a finger.

Our required order is to start with the left joint of the left pinky

and onto the second, repeating this process along the fingers

until reaching the thumb for each apology or punishment requiring yubitsume.

After each sacrifice is made you should wrap the joint in a towel and present

it to the Oyabun as proof of your sincere apology. It is a practice of responsibility.

Sake Exchange

Exchanging cups of Sake (Rice Wine) with your Oyabun signifies many important events.
This ritual taken from Shinto weddings represents a close bondage between individuals.
To perform said ritual, you would sit down across from your Oyabun on a tatami mat (floor mats)
and you direct authority (shategashira, wakagashira etc) would pour the Oyabun a full glass.
Whilst you poured a smaller glass to represent your status. 

You could give a speech to show your utmost gratitude if you desire. You would both
take a sip and then exchange your Sake, drinking from the others' glass. Your Oyabun
would then say something befitting and the ritual would be complete.

If you are interested in joining the family please follow the format below and be

sure to read the requirements for joining as they are parliamentary.

Associated Companies:

Requirements:

 Please take note that this is a serious roleplay organization.

You do not need to be an expert roleplayer to join, if you need

help just ask anyone else in the clan and they will gladly help you.

Please take note that you must have five hours to join this clan

Any bad behavior is entirely your own responsibility and may result

in your demotion from the organization both OOCly and ICly. 

Template Format:

(NOTICE: Most characters should be Korean or Japanese, exceptions can be made)

Code:

Name:
Sex:
Age:
Blood Type:
Nationality:
Occupation:
Who Are You?:

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[Erin]

Post reserved for future updates.

In regards to the amount of roles:

Shatei, Kyodai and Shateigashira will not be limited in the long term, and are likely to change around a lot. But for certain though, the amount of shateigashira will directly influence the amount of lower level roles due to the fact that they act as a representative for every person under their command and will likely be structured in such a way in the future.

Tattoos and Yubitsume:

I will begin making tattoos for members once we finish doing some basic work on the thread such as adding OOC information, correcting spelling errors and getting enough in game wealth to actually support ourselves when it comes to using the stockmarket in similar ways the yakuza do infact use it along with buying equipment and such.

Yubitsume pictures will be made as soon as members begin needing to apologize for their actions and repay by cutting off their fingers or being ordered to cut off their fingers.


Forum related materials:

If any members need a hanko stamp for signatures on documents "messages" Or to use in their forum signature or whatever it may be, send me a message with your characters surname in kanji text (images will be ignored) with it's pronunciation and meaning and I will send you back an oversized PNG (so you can downsize it as needed) once I have time to do so.

(This only applies to Japanese and Chinese characters. If your character does not have a surname from one of the following nationalities and you do not have the characters for it do not ask. These are the only two nationalities I know of which use stamps to sign documents.)



Who are you?:
In the sign up section this does not necessarily mean backstory. Though backstory definitely works I want to simply state it isn't just backstory, so if you want to put in extra effort... Surprise us.

[Razz]

Good luck with the clan!

[Razz]

Name: Ren Tomi
Sex: Male
Age: 38 years old.
Blood Type: AB
Nationality: Japanese
Occupation: Investing.
Who Are You?: Ren Tomi was born 1978 in a small, Japanese village. His parents were very poor. They both worked at a farm that they lived very closed to. Masaru was never able to go to school and therefore he never got a 'proper' job. Masaru started doing street crimes when he was about 16, mugged people and stabbed them to get money. One day when he had made enough money from his crimes, he moved from the village, to a very well-known city, Tokyo. In Tokyo, he started comitting more serious crimes: Drug Dealing, Burglaries, Extortion. After a few years of crimes, he wanted to quit the life of a criminal and decided to leave Japan and move to EvoCity in America.

When he first arrived at America he lived at the Tides Hotel. He didn't know what to say. He was not very familiar with the language the people were talking English, but he learned how to speak fluent English after half a year. After 4 weeks of staying in a hotel, he decided to buy an apartment.
Masaru bought an old pub close to where he lived and renovated it. It was a very successful pub, even the most known pub in EvoCity, but the pub started to lose it's popularity, and it ended up costing Masaru more than he earned. The black money that he had earned was gone, so he was forced to shut it down. Masaru was left with 50,000 dollars that he used to invest in various companies. He made profit, but not enought, according to Masaru. He wanted to make more money, and the only way he knew how to make money besides investing was to earn it the unlegit way. So he tracked down a criminal organisation he had heard about on the streets called Kurokawa Kai. Hoping he was on the right way .

EDIT: I am willing to be any rank in the family that is available. Maybe we can talk about this if I get accepted.

[Erin]

Name: Ren Tomi
Sex: Male
Age: 38 years old.
Blood Type: AB
Nationality: Japanese
Occupation: Investing.
Who Are You?: Ren Tomi was born 1978 in a small, Japanese village. His parents were very poor. They both worked at a farm that they lived very closed to. Masaru was never able to go to school and therefore he never got a 'proper' job. Masaru started doing street crimes when he was about 16, mugged people and stabbed them to get money. One day when he had made enough money from his crimes, he moved from the village, to a very well-known city, Tokyo. In Tokyo, he started comitting more serious crimes: Drug Dealing, Burglaries, Extortion. After a few years of crimes, he wanted to quit the life of a criminal and decided to leave Japan and move to EvoCity in America.

When he first arrived at America he lived at the Tides Hotel. He didn't know what to say. He was not very familiar with the language the people were talking English, but he learned how to speak fluent English after half a year. After 4 weeks of staying in a hotel, he decided to buy an apartment.
Masaru bought an old pub close to where he lived and renovated it. It was a very successful pub, even the most known pub in EvoCity, but the pub started to lose it's popularity, and it ended up costing Masaru more than he earned. The black money that he had earned was gone, so he was forced to shut it down. Masaru was left with 50,000 dollars that he used to invest in various companies. He made profit, but not enought, according to Masaru. He wanted to make more money, and the only way he knew how to make money besides investing was to earn it the unlegit way. So he tracked down a criminal organisation he had heard about on the streets called Kurokawa Kai. Hoping he was on the right way .

EDIT: I am willing to be any rank in the family that is available. Maybe we can talk about this if I get accepted.

[Phiber1337]

Sex: Female
Age: 33
Blood Type: B
Nationality: Japanese
Occupation: Counterfeiting.
Who Are You?: Aiko Utseme was born in Tokyo. Her father was the right hand man of a very big organization in Japan, and when he died, Aiko took over the business and after a while she had made enough of black money and she moved to Evocity to setup a legit business, however, while she was carrying all the money, she was robbed off everything and was left out on the street. Now she is looking for a criminal organisation that is operating inside of Evocity.

[Erin]

Sex: Female
Age: 33
Blood Type: B
Nationality: Japanese
Occupation: Counterfeiting.
Who Are You?: Aiko Utseme was born in Tokyo. Her father was the right hand man of a very big organization in Japan, and when he died, Aiko took over the business and after a while she had made enough of black money and she moved to Evocity to setup a legit business, however, while she was carrying all the money, she was robbed off everything and was left out on the street. Now she is looking for a criminal organisation that is operating inside of Evocity.

Edit: Apologies for spelling your name differently but there is no "tse" sound in japanese so even if that is correct I'm going to make my character believe they spelled it correctly regardless.

[BlackDog]

@Dig

Due to mass forum inactivity in this clan topic I am requesting some kind of update or proof of ingame activity, if this cannot be provided or an update is posted stateing this clan is now closed within 48hrs it will be moved into the Closed area of the Clan Forums.

If it is closed, and in the future you wish to re-open it, Feel free to message me to request its thread moved back into the active area

[Dig]

Clan may be closed.

[BlackDog]

Clan reopened upon request

[Dig]

From the ashes of obscurity and stagnation a new prominent figure of interest has risen
to take on control of the family syndicate as it's sixteenth 'Oyabun'. Meiji Yoshirou, a man
who by all previous accounts was considered a bastard by the family has now secured the
families future by silencing any opposition to his power. He has also been named CEO of 
the Black River Foundation. 



It is reported that older members of the syndicate were either killed or extradited to foreign
countries by the Oyabun, which has been described by media officials as 'a mass purge of intellects 
and those with access to resources and authority which could challenge Yoshirou's push for power.'
Regardless of the conditions behind the chilling line of murders, one thing is for certain that Yoshirou
has pulled the Kurokawa Kai out of isolation and into the spotlight.

[alan245]

I'm shocked when i see Chinese letter in foreign forum D:

[Dig]

Centralized Media Outlet Report:

The Black River Foundation announced today that under the new leadership of CEO Yoshirou, business can finally continue
without hesitation from it's investors or beneficiaries. After two years of liquidated assets and an unforeseeable economic 
climate, the Foundation assures all of it's partners that any trade deals that were being processed prior to the 2016 crash
are free to either continue as transactions or renegotiate the terms of the deal. Famous businessman-entrepreneur 
Geiki Takedawa said in an interview last thursday "I have never felt unsafe with the Foundation, they have always kept their
partners' best interest in mind" It was later found out that Takedawa had very close ties with former Oyabun, Deiji Kurokawa. 



In other news regarding the Kurokawa family, a new member was spotted walking publicly with the syndicate this Tuesday. 
Who has been identified by local officials as Rei Kinjo, who is speculated to be a new entry into the family. Not much is known about the affiliate however the Oyabun released a public statement confirming what the media had thought. 
"Today we welcome new blood into our ranks." said Oyabun Yoshirou this Tuesday.

OOC: Welcome, Decay to the clan

[Lord Octagon]

An open letter to the public,

It is with great pleasure that I announce that the Aikikai Hombu Dojo has been remodelled to allow room for further Aikido training, to which members of the public are permitted to join. New projects will be announced soon so that the dojo can be utilised to the fullest extent.

[Images to be changed]

Moriteru Ueshiba

Grand Master of Aikido

[Dig]

It was said by the ancients that long ago the sky was set ablaze by the unchallenged wrath of the Old Gods; That they sent down great dragons who breathed flame and spoke an unfamiliar tongue. Our ancestors were so frightened by these events that they cried out through the pages of history with thousands of screaming voices crying for us to remember the days before  modernity. Yet today we still are unable to reconcile with the notion that these great dragons never left but merely became apart of our psyche, a permanent infraction upon our memory of who we are and what we are meant to be. For when we look up to the Gods we see and hear nothing; but when we dive into the complexity of the mind we find our purpose in life.

...The dragons have awoken.

-Oyabun Yoshirou
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