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Jin Goda

Jin Goda (1941-23 December 2006) was a Japanese yakuza boss who served as the Fifth Chairman of the Omi Alliance from 1988 to 2006.

Biography[]

Jin Goda was born in Osaka, Japan in 1941, and he became involved with the Omi Alliance yakuza organization; he was known as a tough fighter, but also as a reasonable and wise leader. Goda went on to become the first patriarch of the Goryu-kai subsidiary of the Omi Alliance. During the 1980s, he made the acquaintance of Suyeon Jung, the widow of Jingweon Mafia boss Sang Sang-Min, who persuaded him to take in her infant son and raise him as his own child; Jin renamed the four-year-old boy to Ryuji Goda. Tojo-kai yakuza Shintaro Kazama also persuaded Goda to take in Yukio Terada, another survivor of the Jingweon massacre, and Goda incorporated Terada into the Omi Alliance, leading to Terada's meteoric rise to prominence in the organization's ranks.

By 1988, Goda had risen to serve as Fifth Chairman of the Omi Alliance, and his son eventually inherited the leadership of the Goryu-kai on coming of age. Goda had a complex relationship with the rival Tojo-kai; his own organization had grown too large to control, leading to Yukio Terada and Ryuji Goda supporting rival factions during the 2005 Tojo-kai civil war. LDP politician Kyohei Jingu sought a partnership with Goda, but Jingu was ultimately defeated and killed, and Terada resigned as Chief of HQ of the Omi Alliance to succeed Kazuma Kiryu as Chairman of the Tojo-kai. Terada's defection to the Tojo-kai led to a deterioration of relations between some Omi factions and the Tojo-kai, but Goda was amenable to a partnership with a Tojo Clan under Terada's leadership.

In December 2006, Terada was supposedly assassinated by the Goryu-kai, and Kazuma Kiryu was tasked with delivering Terada's bloodstained, written offer of alliance to Goda to prevent a war from breaking out. Goda warmly received Kiryu and Daigo Dojima as guests at Omi headquarters in Osaka, and he agreed to forging an alliance with the Tojo-kai to maintain peace. However, Ryuji Goda arrived with several armed men and announced that he was seizing control of the Omi Alliance in a coup; the takeover was quietly supported by Goda's lieutenants Ryo Takashima and Toranosuke Sengoku. Kiryu managed to rescue Jin Goda from his kidnappers, and he tasked Daigo with taking Goda to safety in Tokyo. However, the two men were kidnapped by men with Kabukicho license plates, and Goda's kidnapping rendered him unable to prevent a war between the Omi Alliance and Tojo-kai.

Death[]

Jin Goda dead

Goda's body

Jin Goda was present at the final confrontation between Ryuji and Kiryu at Kabukicho Hills, where Jin revealed the truth about Ryuji's original family. After Kiryu defeated Ryuji in a one-on-one fight, Terada arrived and revealed that he had faked his death and ignited a conflict between the Omi and Tojo-kai to destroy the Tojo-kai and avenge the massacre of the Jingweon Mafia. Kiryu proceeded to subdue Terada, but Ryo Takashima arrived shortly after, and Takashima revealed that he had been cooperating with Terada and had been aware of Terada's plot to avenge the Jingweon. However, Takashima proceeded to shoot both Jin Goda and Yukio Terada dead, aiming to take control of both the Omi Alliance and Jingweon Mafia. Ryuji proceeded to avenge his father's death by killing Takashima, but not before Takashima mortally wounded Ryuji with his handgun. The deaths of both Jin and Ryuji Goda, Takashima, and Terada crippled the Omi Alliance, while the Tojo-kai also suffered heavy losses during its war with the Omi.

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