Yotaro Nakajima was a Japanese businessman and former street racer who ran the Nakasu Taxi company in Nakasu, Fukuoka. Formerly the founding leader of the "Devil Killers" band of street racers, he left street racing after his wife was left in a coma after a car crash in 1992.
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Yotaro Nakajima was born in Fukuoka, Japan. He was a prolific street racer during the late 1980s, founding the "Devil Killers" gang alongside Eitatsu Furumichi and Toru Onisaka. The three friends were nicknamed the "Three Musketeers" for their close ties and their renowned racing abilities, but a 1992 car accident put Nakajima's wife in a coma, and he decided to leave racing before Onisaka could return from training to face off against him. Nakajima instead founded the Nakasu Taxi company along with Yuzo Wada and some other former Devil Killers, hoping that his safe driving would grant his wife some peace. However, she never woke up from the coma and died in 2011, and Nakajima became an alcoholic to cope with his troubled past.
In 2012, Nakajima employed the former yakuza Kazuma Kiryu - who went by "Taichi Suzuki" - at his company, and the two became close due to Kiryu's work ethic and Nakajima's generosity. Kiryu made enemies with the Devil Kings for beating up one of their members, leading to him coming to race the "Four Kings" of the Devil Killers and persuading them to disband. Nakajima later reunited with Onisaka after Kiryu - on behalf of Nakajima - beat him in a race, and the two reconciled and resumed their friendship. Kiryu later offered to resign from Nakasu Taxi to prevent it from becoming embroiled in the 2012 Fukuoka gang war, but Nakajima admitted that he knew that Kiryu was using an alias, and allowed him to come back and continue working with him once he sorted out the Tojo-kai's affairs. Kiryu never would, as he was arrested at his Tokyo hospital bed shortly after defeating Masato Aizawa. Nakajima later discovered Kiryu's identity from a news report, and, in 2023, he learned from Makoto Date that Kiryu, who had faked his death, might still be alive.
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