The Yomei Alliance (陽銘連合会, Yōmei Rengō-kai) is the third largest criminal organization in Japan as of Yakuza 6, behind the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance. They are headquartered in Onomichi, Hiroshima. They are prominently featured in Yakuza 6, and have a minor role in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
Unlike the Tojo and Omi, the Yomei have avoided attempts at expansion, and have remained in Hiroshima.
History[]
— Takeru Kurusu to Kazuma Kiryu and Hirose Family members; Yakuza 6The Yamato Mark II was the only physical proof of my countless years of governmental collusion. To Daidoji and the administration, it was a secret they could nigh afford to have made public. Even the Yomei Alliance was created as a means of ensuring it stayed hidden. Upon its founding, the Yomei Alliance consisted of Iwami managers who had helped build the ship. Each one had to be carefully monitored to ensure they were following protocol. Keeping the secret safe was our sole purpose.
The Yomei Alliance was founded by Heizo Iwami, also the founder of Iwami Shipbuilding. After World War II, he adopted Toru Hirose after he trespassed the shipyard as a boy. He made Hirose an assassin sent to ensure that anyone who could possibly expose the secret of Onomichi to the world was silenced, including even the managers of the Iwami Shipbuilding who also acted as a executives of Yomei Alliance and involved with The Yamato Mark II project (fathers of Tsuyoshi Nagumo and Takaaki Matsunaga were one of them).
In his later age, Hirose would become the leader of the Hirose Family, which was made up of the children of the men Hirose killed in service to Iwami. Despite Hirose's secret loyalty to Iwami, the Hirose Family was a subsidiary family to the Masuzoe Family, whose patriarch was secretly loyal to the Saio Triad. At some point, Kanji Koshimizu was recruited by Iwami; he became the Captain and second-in-command of the Yomei Alliance, and the patriarch of his own family, the Koshimizu Family.
Yakuza 6[]
As Chairman of the Yomei Alliance, Kurusu keeps the Hiroshima-based yakuza clan neutral in the rivalry between the Tojo in Kanto, and the Omi in Kansai. However, his son Tsuneo Iwami, with an ambition to be a legendary yakuza, went behind his back to manipulate and use his associates in the Yomei, the Tojo (namely Katsumi Sugai) and the Saio Triad in order to succeed in the legacy of Takeru Kurusu. Tsuneo also enlisted the Jingweon Mafia as a mercenary force to meet his own ends. His schemes are ultimately what drive the conflict of Yakuza 6.
During the plot, Kurusu kills Hirose when he refuses to kill his henchmen and adoptive children after they expose the secret of Onomichi to the world. Shortly afterwards, Tsuneo kills his father, and attempts to defeat Kazuma Kiryu. However, Kiryu, with the help of Hirose's men who are now loyal to him, defeats Kanji, Tsuneo, and all of their subordinates. Sugai, who had been conspiring with Tsuneo, kills himself, but not before shooting Kiryu multiple times, leading him to fake his death and lead almost everyone who knew him to think he was dead.
After the death of Kurusu and the incarceration of Tsuneo, Koshimizu becomes the Yomei Alliance chairman. Out of respect to Kiryu's last will and testament, Daigo Dojima refuses to go to war with the Yomei over Kiryu's Apparent death, and travels to Hiroshima with Goro Majima and Taiga Saejima to form a pact with the Yomei.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth[]
The Yomei Alliance is mentioned to be one of the smaller yakuza organizations the Seiryu Clan is looking to dissolve as part of the Second Great Dissolution, following the original Great Dissolution that disbanded the Tojo and Omi.
The Hirose Family is now a direct subsidiary of the Yomei Alliance proper, with Naoto Tagashira and Takaaki Matsunaga serving as officers of the Yomei as a whole. The two of them are dispatched to Isezaki Ijincho as Yomei envoys to meet with the Seiryu Clan. Through Makoto Date's organization, they are able to meet up with Kiryu at The Harbor Light, who took upon the impromptu alias "Kiryuin". the two of them do reflect on his time with them.
Members and subsidiary families[]
Chairmen[]
| Title | Name | Years Active |
| First Chairman | Takeru Kurusu | 1940's to 2016 |
| Second Chairman | Kanji Koshimizu | 2016 to Present |
Subsidiary Clans & Families[]
| Crest | Name | Leader | Years Active |
|
Hirose Family | Toru Hirose Tsuyoshi Nagumo |
Unknown to Present |
|
Koshimizu Family | Kanji Koshimizu | Unknown to Present |
|
Masuzoe Family | Koji Masuzoe | Unknown to 2016 |
| N/A | Iwami Shipbuilding (Front Organization) |
Heizo Iwami Tsuneo Iwami |
1940's to 2016 |
Known Members[]
- Heizo Iwami, AKA Takeru Kurusu (Founder and First Chairman, also founder and first CEO of Iwami Shipbuilding)
- Tsuneo Iwami (Attempted successor; second CEO of Iwami Shipbuilding)
- Tsuyoshi Nagumo's father
- Takaaki Matsunaga's father
- Kanji Koshimizu (Patriarch of the Koshimizu Family; Captain, and later Second Chairman, of the Yomei Alliance)
- Koji Masuzoe (Patriarch of the Masuzoe Family)
- Toru Hirose (Patriarch of the Hirose Family)
- Tsuyoshi Nagumo (Captain of the Hirose Family, later Second Patriarch)
- Yuta Usami (of the Hirose Family; left at the end of the game)
- Takaaki Matsunaga (of the Hirose Family)
- Naoto Tagashira (of the Hirose Family)
- Shu Tatsukawa (of the Hirose Family, left before the events of the game)
- Toru Hirose (Patriarch of the Hirose Family)