Minoru Daidoji (大道寺 稔, Daidōji Minoru) is a character featured in Yakuza 6. He is a high-ranking member of the Citizens' Liberal Party, and the founder of the Daidoji Faction. His political actions earned him the nickname known as the "The Fixer".
Background[]
Daidoji had been an Admiral in the Japanese Imperial Navy prior to World War II with a highly-decorated service record. Towards the final days of the war, Daidoji had been amongst the hardline militarist members of the Japanese armed forces who refused to accept the unconditional surrender demanded by the American government. In a desperate bid to turn the tide of the war, Daidoji embezzled massive amounts of military funds to finance the construction of the world's most powerful battleship, the Yamato Mark II. In 1945, following the end of the war, Daidoji sends orders to hide the Yamato Mark II. In 1952, Daidoji enacted a bill in his favor in order to subsidize the cost of shipbuilding. The Admiral used the burgeoning Iwami Shipbuilding Company from his native Hiroshima to carry out the construction, along with cheap labor provided by Chinese migrants smuggled into the country by the Saio Triad.
Unfortunately for Daidoji, it soon became apparent that even if the battleship were finished, it would not be enough to beat back the encroaching American forces. In 1975, realizing that he'd incurred in a massive waste of illegally obtained public funds, the Admiral ordered Heizo Iwami to destroy the nearly-completed battleship in order to hide his crimes. Instead, Iwami hid the battleship and started to blackmail Daidoji into giving his company privileged military contracts and political favors. Without alternatives, Daidoji agreed to Iwami's demands in exchange for having the "secret of Onomichi" kept hidden.
After the War, Daidoji's favorable public image as a war hero allowed him to have a career in politics, where he would quickly become one of the leading members in the Citizens' Liberal Party. He gained a reputation for being highly-skilled at fixing scandals and problems behind the scenes in order to avoid public outrage, thus gaining him the nickname of "The Fixer."
Involvement[]
Yakuza 6: 2016[]
Kazuma Kiryu and his friends in the Hirose Family end up uncovering the secret of Onomichi and revealing it to the country. Daidoji, who's on his deathbed, was infuriated by Iwami's failure to keep his end of the bargain, so he authorized his treacherous son, Tsuneo Iwami, to murder his father. After Iwami Sr.'s death, Daidoji offers to grant Tsuneo the same favors and contracts that he'd given his father on two conditions: First, he must cover up Daidoji's role in the battleship's construction and blame it entirely on the late Chairman Iwami and, second, he must murder Kiryu in retaliation for the secret's revelation.
Tsuneo would attempt to fulfill Daidoji's demands but he was incapable of killing Kiryu. Daidoji would succumb to his illness soon after and his unnamed successor would help Kiryu fake his death in exchange for his silence about Daidoji's involvement with the secret of Onomichi.
Trivia[]
- Daidoji's nickname in Japanese, 昭和のフィクサー (Shōwa no Fikusā, Lit. "The Fixer of Showa") refers to the Showa Era, meaning the reign of Emperor Showa (1926–1989).