Hirata (平田) is a minor character featured in Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza 3. He is the former president of Peace Finance.
Involvement[]
Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami: 1995[]
Hirata plans to abandon his company and skip town, but Kazuma Kiryu and Shinji Tanaka arrive to collect his debt while he and his employees are packing. Hirata's pleas for an extension on the due date are shut down and - in a panic - he attacks Kiryu with a golf club. He is easily beaten and Shinji collects the 200 million he owed. When Kiryu is on his way to the Dojima headquarters, Hirata confronts him and demands his money back by force. However, he is easily defeated again.
2006[]
- Main article: Ghosts from the Past
After the Millennium Tower is bombed, Hirata, having gone into hiding after closing his company and leaving his family behind since his last encounter with Kiryu, prepares to have his revenge. Before he can stab Kiryu, he is spotted by a photographer, and flees.
Yakuza 3: 2009[]
Hirata is reunited with his son Tatsuo after 14 years and asks his forgiveness, admitting responsibility for abandoning him and his family all those years ago.
Fighting style[]
Yakuza[]
Hirata doesn't put up any fight during the tutorial, acting as a metaphorical punching bag. However when he confronts Kiryu at Theatre Square, he now swings at Kiryu with his golf club. Once unarmed, he has one move, the generic stumbling right haymaker which he throws very sporadically.
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