Ends of the Earth (最果ての地, Saihate no Chi, Lit. "The Farthest Land") is the first chapter of Part 2 of Yakuza 5, and the fifth chapter overall.
Plot[]
Two years prior, after the events of the previous game, Taiga Saejima agreed to return to prison and serve out the remainder of his term for the attempted murder of the Ueno-Seiwa Clan's leadership, despite the objections of his sworn brother, Goro Majima.
In 2012, Saejima is awaiting parole at Abashiri Prison in Hokkaido with his cellmates: Himura, a corrupt former police detective; Heihachiro Oshima, a professional thief; and Shigeki Baba, a member of the Sapporo's leading yakuza, the Kitakata Family. Despite being model inmates, Saejima and his cellmates are constantly harassed by Hiroshi Kugihara, another prisoner who has an inexplicable bone to pick with them.
Tensions escalate when Kugihara frames Baba for an attack on one of his cohorts. After Saejima, Himura and Oshima find proof of the set-up, they confront Kugihara and Saejima gets into a fight with him. After being beaten, Kugihara lets it slip that somebody instructed him to hound Saejima and goad him into fighting so that he would be denied parole.
Further bad news reaches Saejima soon after. When he and his cellmates are reading a newspaper, the top article informs them about the death of Goro Majima during an alliance negotiation with the Kitakata Family in Hokkaido, seemingly on the orders of the Family's patriarch, Taizo Kitakata.