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The Masakado Kato Story
Born and raised as the only child of the Kato family in the suburbs of Nagoya, he had the early misfortune of being burakumin. This expression means, that the person is an outcast, due to the fact that he belongs to approximately 1 million people in Japanese society who are doomed to be “untouchable”. This synonym is given to mixed races, people of certain origin and misfits due to one stigma or the other. In his case the reason was, that his father was working in leather production, an occupation which prevented him, his family and therefore also his offspring to participate fully in Japanese life and social circles.
As a result of such shortcomings, from the very first hour of his existence, Masakado Kato did not have the privilege of attending the proper schools, to get a better job, to climb in social status or to marry a regular Japanese of good ancestry. Anger, rage and unwillingness to accept his faith drove the young Kato to engage with crime early on. At the age of 12, he took to the streets and joined a youth gang, which was focused on petty thefts and acts of random violence. On the day of his 14th birthday, he went to his home and killed both his father and mother to take revenge on those, who had caused his social misery. In court, he was sentenced under the law for juveniles. Since he was a minor, he only got 10 years in prison-like institution where he was eligible for counselling and psychotherapy.
During his confinement and therapy, Masakado Kato turned out to be a very intelligent person. So, to nobody’s surprise, Masakado Kato fooled the entire system. On one hand he was bright, literate, and had an very high IQ, bordering on the margins a genius. On the other he was violent, manipulating, cunning and a deadly psychopath. Later, his doctors and the staff of the federal justice facility had to admit, that he resembled the perfect description of a sociopath and that they all had completely underestimated the danger of releasing him into the public once more.
Masakado Kato could not care less.
After 7 years in confinement, he got paroled, deemed a reformed citizen and moved to Tokyo to start a new life. In the streets of the capital his true talents matured. Soon he was fed up with his daytime job in a small pachinko (gambling) hall.
Opportunity struck, when a henchman of a local Obayun got into serious trouble in the pachinko joint and Masakado Kato saved his limb and probably life by defending the man and providing for his safe passage out of the building. The henchman, a certain Sobayashi Edo, had a giri (obligation) towards Kato and therefore introduced him to the Obayun Toro Matsueda, head of the Japango clan. Within nine troublesome years, Kato rose in the ranks of the outfit and, after becoming the youngest kyodai (brother) of Japans underworld, he waged a secret internal campaign against the waka-gashira Toshiro Keisu. It endet in Keisu’s disgrace and seppukko (harakiri) and Kato’s reign as autonomous gang leader in the clan.
Together with Matsueda’s saiko-komon Shinobu Kasaki, who was responsible of the staff of advocates, accountants, secretaries and advisers and the shatei-gashira Kenzo Musaki, who was head of all the kyodais, he claimed his bid for the throne of the Oyabun. Intellect, cunning and ruthlessness bore fruits, as Kato toppled Toro Matsueda, killing him in a staged clan feud, blaming his allies Musaki and Kasaki for the dirty deed. He influenced the oyabuns of the region as he did the wardens and doctors of the prison facilities. Subsequently, he was in the clear, and empowered with the order of the tribunal of oyabuns to violently dispose of both his associates. He gladly obliged, killing them both in an open fight with a katana (sword). This heaped even more praise and influence within the council of oyabuns upon Kato’s head.
So, at the tender age of 32, Masakado Kato had achieved great success and a bright and brilliant future in crime laying in front of him.
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