The Shiawase Family
The Shiawase family is a highly influential clan that from Japan that rose in power alongside their corporation, Shiawase Corporation. Built during the post-WWII reconstruction of Japan, Shiawase Corp has been run almost exclusively by members of the Shiawase and has since become one of the biggest and most influential corporations in the world.
Assets
Each member of the Shiawase family has major holdings in the company, even the more distant cousins. Around 80% of Shiawase Corporation's stocks are held by members of the family, making the whole group immensely rich. Ever since the corporation expanded into international territory, the family similarly gained access to international land, with some living in their homeland of Japan while others live as far off as Europe and North America.
History
The Shiawase family obviously existed prior to the formation of Shiawase Corporation, but their relatively unknown status made them hard to track. During the years after WWII, Japan underwent a widespread reconstruction effort that the Shiawase were involved in. By the late-80s, however, this efforts slowed as Japan caught up with other modern countries. Shiawase businesses began to fail, so one member of the family stepped up and began consolidating.
Emori Shiawase, the first real head of the family, became known on the international stage when he consolidated the family businesses into Shiawase Corporation. He had a good eye for industries with room for Shiawase Corp to grow into, so he diversified the company's output. This eventually lead to the company's investment in the energy industry, the The Shiawase Decision, and ultimately Shiawase Corp's emergence as a megacorporation. All the while, the Shiawase clan held tight control of the company. Most major positions were filled by close family of Emori, who in turn emphasized the importance of family in the structuring of his new corporation.
The Shiawase family, like many others, hides a few skeletons in its closet relating to the events of he Awakening, . Several members of the family contracted UGE, which was seen as a horrific disease at the time. Fearing public reprimand and damage to the family image, Emori made efforts to hide any evidence that his family had been affected by UGE. Several family members, including one of Sadato's newborn sons, mysteriously turned up dead over the course of 2011, most of whom are now assumed to have shown signs of UGE and were subsequently killed.
When Emori eventually died of heart disease in 2019, he left behind a power vaccuum. Several other members of the family, primarily older cousins took control of Shiawase Corporation, but his son, Sadato Shiawase, became head of the family. Although Sadato eventually regained control of the corporation, both of his surviving siblings also gained influential positions. Although they couldn't easily contest Sadato's position as head of the family, both his older sister Soko Shiawase and younger brother Ryoi Shiawase attempted to push Sadato out of the corporation. A decade of political scheming and escalation eventually lead to Soko attempting to kill Sadato, instead killing Ryoi in the process. Although Ryoi still supposedly exists on as a ghost voiced by Jerri Howard, the two remaining siblings consider their own factions the only remaining power in the corporation, the only things holding each other back.
Sadato eventually passed ownership of the corporation down to his son, Tadashi Shiawase who now acts as a puppet to his father. Although he has little power to betray his father, Tadashi seems to prefer his aunt in terms of leadership. This preference has slowly, incrementally moved power in favor of Soko, but Sadato's hold on the family and the stalemate of Ryoi's power keeps both siblings at bay.
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