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The Jingweon Mafia is a Korean crime syndicate which originated in South Korea, and which expanded into Japan during the 1970s. Under the leadership of Sang Sang-Min, the Jingweon Mafia established a foothold in the Kabukicho red-light district of Tokyo, where its well-trained operatives warred with the up-and-coming Tojo-kai yakuza clan for territory. The Jingweon, whose name means the "True Fist Society", was known for its extreme "death before dishonor" creed, requiring the suicide of failed operatives, revenge for fallen members, and the murder of those who broke the creed. On 25 December 1980, the Tojo-kai officers Shintaro Kazama and Futoshi Shimano massacred 33 of the Jingweon's 36 Tokyo members at a Christmas party in Kabukicho, enabling the Dojima-gumi to become the most powerful crime syndicate in Tokyo, and for the Tojo-kai to expand across Kanto. Two of the survivors, Kim Daejin and Ji Yeongmin, assumed the identities of "Yukio Terada" and "Wataru Kurahashi" after they were spared by Kazama, and Terada rose in the ranks of the Omi Alliance yakuza organization, while Kurahashi rose in the ranks of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. With the help of Jingweon assassins from the Korean homeland and from allies within the Omi Alliance, the Jingweon plotted their revenge against the Tojo-kai, a plan which sprung into action after Terada became Chairman of the Tojo-kai in the aftermath of the 2005 Tojo-kai civil war. Terada faked his death in order to provoke the 2006 Tojo-Omi war, but the Jingweon failed in their attempt to destroy Tokyo with 33 bombs due to the intervention of Kazuma Kiryu, the policeman Jiro Kawara (who gave his life in the process), the policewoman Kaoru Sayama (the daughter of Kawara and Suyeon Jung, the widow of the late Jingweon boss Sang), the ex-policeman Makoto Date, and Tojo-kai leaders Daigo Dojima and Goro Majima (who located and defused the bombs with the help of the Florist of Sai's surveillance equipment). Kurahashi was killed by Kawara after fatally wounding him, and Terada was betrayed and killed by his Omi co-conspirator Ryo Takashima, who was, in turn, killed by Ryuji Goda (the son of Sang and Jung, and the adopted heir of Omi Chairman Jin Goda), whom Takashima had also fatally wounded. The deaths of Kurahashi, Terada, and Park Hoejong in December 2006 saw the violent deaths of the three Jingweon survivors from 1980, and the Jingweon were eliminated from Japan.

By 2016, however, Joongi Han started a new Jingweon chapter in Japan, stepping back from the fanatical Jingweon creed and instead pursuing a more entrepreneurial approach towards establishing a foothold on Japanese soil. The Jingweon became mercenaries for Tsuneo Iwami during his plot to take over the Yomei Alliance and the cities of Hiroshima and Tokyo, but, after Han discovered the "Secret of Onomichi" (an Imperial Japanese Navy battleship), he was assassinated on Iwami's orders, leading to the Jingweon falling apart again. Most Jingweon members in Japan returned to their mainland family, while others remained in Japan and joined the Geomijul counterfeiting syndicate.

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