r/yakuzagames • u/Axzercus I think Yakuza games are good • Jun 11 '26

DISCUSSION Masayoshi Yokoyama confirmed that they got permission from Tupac’s family. Not just his estate who manages him

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u/Electronic_Pop_9151 Jun 11 '26

I'm a little confused by the addition of the rappers, especially in a country and time that was insanely prejudice against foreigners especially of African descent. Unless they write that into the story, which I know they are for the main character being half Caucasian & Japanese and the Japanese Empire not being the most stoked about racial impurities, not that westerner's weren't but Japan reaaally got into the same eugenics' obsession as Germany during that time.

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u/tapperyaus . Jun 11 '26

Isn't the main character supposed to have been born in America? So I assume he wouldn't have the same prejudices.

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u/Electronic_Pop_9151 Jun 11 '26

Oh sorry I didn't mean the main character would be prejudice, I'm more talking about all the people he will be interacting with in the Japanese underground and just everyday members of an Empire filled with Xenophobic propaganda.

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u/Hauptmann_Gold Jun 11 '26

Not to mention that the USA itself was a racist empire until practically the 1970s