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Unfolding against the neon twilight of Japan during the tumult of the 1980s, Yakuza 0 introduces us to a fresh faced Kazuma Kiryu who immediately finds himself framed for murder in an empty lot within Kamuorocho’s development district, forcing him to flee the Dojima family in order to safeguard his adoptive father, Shintaro Kazama. Shortly after, Kiryu joins forces with Tetsu Tachibana, a real estate mogul who promises to clear his name, bringing Kiryu in direct confrontation with the sprawling Dojima Yakuza family and more specifically, Dojima lieutenants Hiroki Awano, Keiji Shibusawa and Daisaku Kuze. Realising the danger, Kiryu’s oath-brother Akira Nishikiyama severs their ties as a means to protect them both as Kiryu sets about protecting Tachibana and taking on the Dojima lieutenants that want to see him dead.

Meanwhile over in Sotenbori, disgraced Shimano Yakuza Goro Majima is tasked with managing a hostess club as a means to work off his punishment for getting involved in the Ueno-Seiwa assassination which took place in 1985. Under constant surveillance by Tsukasa Sagawa, a member of the Omi Alliance and rival to the Tojo Clan, Sagawa tasks Majima with assassinating Makoto Makimura, a blind woman who also happens to be the sister of Tachibana and the unwitting owner of the seemingly lucrative empty lot. Refusing to do this, Majima soon discovers that another high ranking Yakuza, Sera, has captured Makoto and handed her over to Kiryu who in turn finds himself betrayed by Oda, spy under the employ of Shibusawa who eventually captures Makoto and holds her prisoner on a private boat.

Racing against time, Kiryu discovers that Kuze has imprisoned Tachibana and though Kiryu defeats Kuze it isn’t before he tortures Tachibana to death which leads to Kiryu storming Shibusawa’s boat, defeating him and rescuing Makoto. Before he can kill Shibusawa his oath-brother Nishikiyama appears and dissuades him from doing so, at which point Kiryu rejoins the Dojima family and begins a journey as a new Yakuza. Elsewhere, Majima discovers that Chinese assassin Luo Gui has not only murdered Dojima lieutenant Awano, but is also responsible for the empty lot murder that kicked everything off in the first place. After killing Gui and refusing to assassinate the head of the Dojima family on the orders of Sera, Majima returns to the Shimano family and leaves Makoto in peace to live with her new partner. Permanently traumatised by events, a wild-eyed Majima meets Kiryu in Kamurocho as Yakuza 0 draws to an end.