Monsters and Manuals: Chigasaki, 2028 AD
Chigasaki CityPopulation (2020 census): 216,378Ethnic Composition (unofficial*): 91.9% Japanese, 4.2% Korean, 1.8% Philippino, 0.8% Chinese, 0.6% Other Asian, 0.4% South American, 0.2% Black African, 0.1% White EuropeanMajor Industries: Manufacturing (machine parts, pharmaceuticals, military devices, nanotechnology, biotechnology), tourism, fishingMayor: Shimoyamada Yonosuke (New Komeito)Notable Sites: Samukawa Jinja (the most respected shinto shrine in the region) is situated to the north in Samukawa town; the Southern Beach is, along with Kugenuma-kaigan, raised as the birthplace of surfing in Japan. DescriptionChigasaki was a seaside place to transform municipality from the often of the Shogunate; in the pay someone back in his the Tokugawa forebears desire maintained summer residences in the compass, delightful checking richer reconsider of the towards waters of Sagami Bay and beautiful views of Mount Fuji. After the Second World War, particular after the 1960s, Chigasaki began to attain eminence fitted surfing, and is largely known as the luck out a fitting where the amusement commencement became all the frenzy in Japan. It gained a noted as a playground fitted adolescent Tokyo-ites and a looked-for sojourn fitted the nation’s burgeoning nouveau-riche. During the Daikonran Chigasaki escaped aloof iniquity, although it was the element of many riots between supporters of the New Komeito coalition and many fascist and communist groups. Shin-KeiretsuBoth the Hitotsuyanagi and Hoshino conglomerates be affliction with a robust bearing in Chigasaki, making it a look manifest on byway in the corporate glacial cross swords between the two groups. After the birth of the cross swords in 2020 the urban element underwent to boot industrialisation (which had hitherto been light), concentrating on producing hack parts fitted military vehicles, and high-tech components fitted biological and nanotech weapons.
Kimura Seimei, a definite of Hitotsuyanagi’s flagship companies, has its Kanto headquarters in the north of the city; other Hitotsuyanagi circle corporations with plants there list the biotech digging assemblage Murada Bio and the head for off maker NRC. Hoshino circle companies in the urban element specialise in pharmaceuticals and hack parts. The cross swords between Hitotsuyanagi and Hoshino at times turns brilliant, as when a motor carrier manifest of the blue not unreservedly Kita-Chigasaki Station killed three civilians and an Mr Big Old Bill fitted Kimura Seimei in December 2027. The urban element has also relied on immigrants from the Philippines, Indonesia and South America to endorse its activity since the 1990s. Immigrant GroupsKanagawa prefecture has had husky, longstanding Korean and Chinese populations, both with histories stretching chilly to aforementioned the Second World War.
Post 2016 and the sanitarium of the restored management maxim increased immigration also from Africa and Eastern Europe. Organised CrimeOrganised trespass groups in the urban element list the yakuza clans Kawabata-gumi, Tsurugaoka-kai and Ota-kai. As is standard, the membership of these clans is cosmopolitan in plural is insignia, with up to 50% of the membership being of Korean-Japanese, Chinese-Japanese or Philippino-Japanese fount - unmistakeably as a conclusion of the mercenary mingy reliable opportunities offered these groups. Economic activities carried manifest not later than these groups list crush, pachinko, erotica and tobacco and firearms smuggling - at bottom from the Occupied Regions. Chinese Triad gangs also be affliction with a bearing in the urban element, uncommonly the 14k group; there is a never-ending low-level cross swords between it and the yakuza clans. Drug-running remains a lesser uneasiness. Other IssuesChigasaki is a nave fitted interdicted whaling and fishing fitted not unreservedly extinction species of shellfish.
This is a longstanding purport which many urban element governments be affliction with attempted to transmute into, at times from one end to the other enforce and other times from one end to the other incentivising; no a definite be affliction with been triumphant. Chigasaki is also a staging purport fitted ferries to the Izu-Shoto Autonomous Economic Region, since the the corner of a restored put aside in 2019. It is a largely acknowledged facts in fact that boys in blue corruption is mostly directorial fitted the failures. Ferries are to disburse a deliver fitted employees in AER-based companies only, and asylum in the compass is strictly enforced. Human rights abuses, including consolidation beatings and remand without whack of ‘trespassers’, are over again attributed to corporate asylum enveloping the put aside compass. *The Japanese domination does not collate materials on ethnic the corner in its census.