
MAO, Inc. was a Japanese company with ties to the Ousaka Enterprises yakuza syndicate. In 2012, Shun Akiyama and Tatsuo Shinada visited the MAO, Inc. headquarters on Shichifuku Street in Kabukicho, Tokyo and met its president Toshihiro Tsukatani, who revealed that Naoki Katsuya and Mirei Park had secretly been friends for years and were not rivals as the media portrayed them.