Changes: Sky Finance

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Template:LocationSky Finance is a credit company owned by Shun Akiyama. It is run primarily by Hana, and is located above New Serena.

Yakuza 4

It is the main setting of Akiyama's story arc. The company is known for giving loans not based from credit rating, but rather from how committed the client is to get their desired loan, measured by tests. If one passes the test, he/she may get the desired cash loan without having to pay any interest or collateral.

Later on the game, the company suffered from a theft, causing all of its money to gone missing. However, the money is later recovered after a deal at the Kamurocho Hills tower, which Akiyama uses as a bait to lure out each of the main antagonists.

Yakuza: Dead Souls

Sky Finance remains in operation during the events of Dead Souls, to the point where Akiyama himself doesn't notice the impending apocalypse due to its security.

Yakuza 5

In Yakuza 5, Sky Finance expands to the western part of Japan, specifically to Sotenbori, Osaka, to cater for the increased clientele. Hana takes over the Kamurocho branch in Akiyama's stead. Notable clients include Mirei Park, who had asked for a 300 million yen loan to arrange a concert at Tokyo's Japan Dome for Haruka Sawamura, while at the Kamurocho office, Shinada became Akiyama's client, asking for a 320 million yen loan in order to cancel Haruka's concert at the Japan Dome.

Yakuza 6

Shortly after the fire in Little Asia before the events of Yakuza 6, Akiyama decides to temporarily close the company after the Chinese mafia discover his connections to the yakuza. Hana is sent back to her hometown in order to protect her, and Akiyama goes into hiding beneath the city in its sewers.

Loan Tests

Throughout the events of Yakuza 4 and 5, Akiyama offers loans to certain people to test their commitment to find. Tasks range from community service to working for him to pay back a portion of the money if there are no tasks.

Lily (Yasuko Saejima) - Lily came to Sky Finance to borrow 100 million yen so that she can release her brother from prison. Her test was to gain 3 million yen by working at Elise in 3 days. Lily passes the test and is given the 100 million.
Shiobara - The first client the player meets in Akiyama's substory, Shiobara was an aimless entrepreneur who struggled to establish his own successful business. In his initial test, he unsuccessfully tried to complete three separate tasks which Akiyama knew he would fail. Tackling Shiobara's refusal to lay off people and taking the blame for the company's failure, Akiyama makes him work for Paradise Advertising, which was in need of layoffs. While he passed the first test, he again approaches Akiyama for another loan after he loses his passion and his second test was to take a single mundane item and make money out it. Here he teaches his secret to success was not by seeking the golden opportunity but to satisfy the needs of others.
Unnamed Woman - A middle-aged woman who asks Akiyama for a loan to sustain her family expenses. She is given three hours to find a job. She fails to commit fully and seeks out the obvious jobs and refused to make the sacrifices needed to secure a loan and fails to get a loan.
Shoko Muto - A single woman who was in need of money to pay off her outstanding debts for her extravagant lifestyle. Akiyama hands her a million yen as a "gift" and secretly surveillance her spending habits with the money she has acquired. Unwilling to spend extravagantly with Akiyama's money, she passes the test as she was willing let go of her reckless spending habits.
Setsuko Arima - The wife of President Arima, a loan agency owner similar to Akiyama, using Shiobara to lure away clients from Akiyama. Akiyama gets a request for a loan from his wife and puts her through the same process as the unnamed woman. She is so desperate for the loan that she goes to Elise to seek any kind of work. After learning about Arima's situation, Akiyama reasons with the husband who decides to start anew from his corporate raiding past.
Hanaoka - A client of Akiyama during the events of Dead Souls. Saddled with debt due to having to care for so many cats. He succeeds by giving the cats away to other people who wanted a pet cat of their own.
Mirei Park - Akiyama's client during the events of Yakuza 5. In order to secure a 300 million yen loan to fund Haruka's upcoming concert at the Japan Dome, Park was assigned to "make money using her body", so she took two jobs: as a hostess (where she managed to be the number one hostess) and as a construction worker.
Juri - A hostess working at Elise, while officially she was trying to earn money to sustain her finances, the loan in question was to help her boyfriend's gambling debts.
Kazami - An estranged father, he sought out a loan so his daughter can go to university. He succeeded on the condition that he personally gave the tuition money to his daughter.
Tsukimura - A man literally down on his luck, he comes to Akiyama for a loan. He is given the loan on the condition that he turns the money given into a profit, only to be saddled with a worse losing streak. His lucky streak saved him from failing to meet the conditions of the loan when he bet on a low odds horse and won.
Yamori - Akiyama's former employer. After Akiyama was fired, Eri married Yamori and both had a happy life until the scandal got Munakata involved and destroyed Yamori's reputation at Toto Bank enough to get him to resign from his post as he fails to establish a new business and got blacklisted. At first he intended to let a couple of loan sharks murder him so he can give his insurance to his family but Akiyama intervened in time. While Akiyama intended to have his revenge by making Yamori divorce Eri, he decides that, in order to give Yamori a start up loan, he would have to put behind his previous grudges with Akiyama.
Nanako Kodama - A pin-up idol who aspires to go independent. Akiyama gave her four tests: becoming a temporary hostess for one day, collect a loan, "make money using her body" (which she translated to construction work), and finally, change her stage name. She refused to do the last test, so Akiyama refused to give her the loan.

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 {{Location|image1 = Sky Finance.png
 |located_in = [[Tenkaichi Street]], [[Kamurocho]]<br>
-[[Sotenbori]], Osaka
+[[Sotenbori]]
 |proprietor = [[Shun Akiyama]]
 |staff = [[Hana]]
 |first_appearance = Yakuza 4
+|last_appearance = Yakuza 6
-|last_appearance = Yakuza 6}}Sky Finance is a credit company owned by [[Shun Akiyama]]. The company is run by both Akiyama and his personal assistant, [[Hana]]. It is located in a small space behind the New Serena bar.
+}}'''Sky Finance''' is a credit company owned by [[Shun Akiyama]]. It is run primarily by [[Hana]], and is located above [[New Serena]].
 == Yakuza 4 ==
-It is the main setting in Akiyama's story arc. The company is known for giving loans not based from credit rating, but rather from how committed the client is to get their desired loan, measured by tests. If one passes the test, he/she may get the desired cash loan without having to pay any interest or collateral.
+It is the main setting of Akiyama's story arc. The company is known for giving loans not based from credit rating, but rather from how committed the client is to get their desired loan, measured by tests. If one passes the test, he/she may get the desired cash loan without having to pay any interest or collateral.
-Later on the game, the company suffered from a theft, causing all of its money to gone missing. However, the money is later recovered after a deal at the Kamurocho Hills tower, which Akiyama use as a bait to lure out each of the main antagonists.
+Later on the game, the company suffered from a theft, causing all of its money to gone missing. However, the money is later recovered after a deal at the Kamurocho Hills tower, which Akiyama uses as a bait to lure out each of the main antagonists.
 == Yakuza: Dead Souls ==
-Sky Finance remains in operation during the events of Dead Souls.
+Sky Finance remains in operation during the events of Dead Souls, to the point where Akiyama himself doesn't notice the impending apocalypse due to its security.
 == Yakuza 5 ==
-In Yakuza 5, Sky Finance expands to the western part of Japan, specifically in Sotenbori, Osaka, to cater for the increased clientele. Notable clients include Mirei Park, who asked for a 300 million yen loan to arrange a concert in Tokyo's Japan Dome for Haruka.
+In ''[[Yakuza 5]]'', Sky Finance expands to the western part of Japan, specifically to [[Sotenbori]], Osaka, to cater for the increased clientele. Hana takes over the [[Kamurocho]] branch in Akiyama's stead.
+Notable clients include [[Mirei Park]], who had asked for a 300 million yen loan to arrange a concert at Tokyo's Japan Dome for [[Haruka Sawamura]], while at the Kamurocho office, [[Tatsuo Shinada|Shinada]] became Akiyama's client, asking for a 320 million yen loan in order to cancel Haruka's concert at the Japan Dome.
-At the Tokyo office, Shinada became Akiyama's client, asking for a 320 million yen loan to cancel Haruka's concert at Japan Dome.
 == Yakuza 6 ==
-Shortly after the fire in Little Asia before the events of Yakuza 6, Akiyama decided to temporarily close the company after the Chinese mafia discovered his connections to the yakuza. Hana was sent back to her hometown as a consequence.
+Shortly after the fire in Little Asia before the events of Yakuza 6, Akiyama decides to temporarily close the company after the Chinese mafia discover his connections to the yakuza. Hana is sent back to her hometown in order to protect her, and Akiyama goes into hiding beneath the city in its sewers.
+==Loan Tests==
+Throughout the events of Yakuza 4 and 5, Akiyama offers loans to certain people to test their commitment to find. Tasks range from community service to working for him to pay back a portion of the money if there are no tasks.
+*'''Lily ([[Yasuko Saejima]])''' - Lily came to Sky Finance to borrow 100 million yen so that she can release her brother from prison. Her test was to gain 3 million yen by working at Elise in 3 days. Lily passes the test and is given the 100 million.
+*'''Shiobara '''- The first client the player meets in Akiyama's substory, Shiobara was an aimless entrepreneur who struggled to establish his own successful business. In his initial test, he unsuccessfully tried to complete three separate tasks which Akiyama knew he would fail. Tackling Shiobara's refusal to lay off people and taking the blame for the company's failure, Akiyama makes him work for Paradise Advertising, which was in need of layoffs. While he passed the first test, he again approaches Akiyama for another loan after he loses his passion and his second test was to take a single mundane item and make money out it. Here he teaches his secret to success was not by seeking the golden opportunity but to satisfy the needs of others.
+*'''Unnamed Woman''' - A middle-aged woman who asks Akiyama for a loan to sustain her family expenses. She is given three hours to find a job. She fails to commit fully and seeks out the obvious jobs and refused to make the sacrifices needed to secure a loan and fails to get a loan.
+*'''Shoko Muto''' - A single woman who was in need of money to pay off her outstanding debts for her extravagant lifestyle. Akiyama hands her a million yen as a "gift" and secretly surveillance her spending habits with the money she has acquired. Unwilling to spend extravagantly with Akiyama's money, she passes the test as she was willing let go of her reckless spending habits.
+*'''Setsuko Arima''' - The wife of President Arima, a loan agency owner similar to Akiyama, using Shiobara to lure away clients from Akiyama. Akiyama gets a request for a loan from his wife and puts her through the same process as the unnamed woman. She is so desperate for the loan that she goes to Elise to seek any kind of work. After learning about Arima's situation, Akiyama reasons with the husband who decides to start anew from his corporate raiding past.
+*'''Hanaoka''' - A client of Akiyama during the events of Dead Souls. Saddled with debt due to having to care for so many cats. He succeeds by giving the cats away to other people who wanted a pet cat of their own.
+*'''[[Mirei Park]]''' - Akiyama's client during the events of Yakuza 5. In order to secure a 300 million yen loan to fund Haruka's upcoming concert at the Japan Dome, Park was assigned to "make money using her body", so she took two jobs: as a hostess (where she managed to be the number one hostess) and as a construction worker.
+*'''Juri''' - A hostess working at Elise, while officially she was trying to earn money to sustain her finances, the loan in question was to help her boyfriend's gambling debts.
+*'''Kazami''' - An estranged father, he sought out a loan so his daughter can go to university. He succeeded on the condition that he personally gave the tuition money to his daughter.
+*'''Tsukimura''' - A man literally down on his luck, he comes to Akiyama for a loan. He is given the loan on the condition that he turns the money given into a profit, only to be saddled with a worse losing streak. His lucky streak saved him from failing to meet the conditions of the loan when he bet on a low odds horse and won.
+*'''Yamori '''- Akiyama's former employer. After Akiyama was fired, Eri married Yamori and both had a happy life until the scandal got Munakata involved and destroyed Yamori's reputation at Toto Bank enough to get him to resign from his post as he fails to establish a new business and got blacklisted. At first he intended to let a couple of loan sharks murder him so he can give his insurance to his family but Akiyama intervened in time. While Akiyama intended to have his revenge by making Yamori divorce Eri, he decides that, in order to give Yamori a start up loan, he would have to put behind his previous grudges with Akiyama.
+*'''Nanako Kodama''' - A pin-up idol who aspires to go independent. Akiyama gave her four tests: becoming a temporary hostess for one day, collect a loan, "make money using her body" (which she translated to construction work), and finally, change her stage name. She refused to do the last test, so Akiyama refused to give her the loan.
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+[[Category:Yakuza 4 Locations]]
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