Suyeon Jung (1948-1982), later known as Shoko Kawara, was a Korean-Japanese woman who was the wife of Jingweon Mafia boss Sang Sang-Min and Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department detective Jiro Kawara and the mother of Ryuji Goda and Kaoru Sayama.
Biography[]
Suyeon Jung was born in South Korea in 1948, and she later emigrated to Japan, where she married Jingweon Mafia boss Sang Sang-Min during the 1970s and gave birth to their only child, the future Ryuji Goda, in 1976. On 25 December 1980, Suyeon sheltered her child in the Jingweon Mafia's burning warehouse as her husband and 35 other Jingweon Mafia members were massacred by the Tojo-kai yakuza clan, and she intended to kill herself and the child before police detective Jiro Kawara arrived, slapped the senses back into Jung, and had her hand over the child, whom he said was innocent and was deserving of life. Ultimately, Kawara and Tsutomu Bessho took Suyeon out of Kabukicho, and Suyeon moved to Kansai to start a new life. While there, she bequeathed her son to her acquaintance Jin Goda, a powerful Omi Alliance yakuza boss.
Suyeon with a baby Kaoru
Kawara periodically visited Suyeon to check in on her, and the two eventually fell in love and married, and Suyeon gave birth to their daughter, Kaoru, in 1981. Just a year later, however, Kawara was reassigned to Hong Kong, and Suyeon convinced Kawara to accept the offer, believing that she would be safe in her new identity. However, she was tracked down and killed by a Jingweon assassin from Korea, causing Kawara to seek vengeance against the Jingweon Mafia and ruthlessly murder several of them over the next several years. Kaoru was taken in by Tamiyo Sayama and raised under an assumed identity to keep her safe.