Kumiko Hashita
Code Name: Sunmaiden
Public Information
You are the Service Bureau Chief for Japan.
You've been in the Service for years. You started out in the Anti-Yakuza Section and then graduated to work on international criminal conspiracies. Your father was one of the most decorated Service Agents in Asia with the highest single arrest record in Service history. You've followed in his footsteps as did your three brothers (all three died in the line of duty, as did your father).
You've lived in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, London, and Los Angeles in the last ten years as part of your duties for the Service.
You are an expert swordswoman, specializing in the twin katana style. You prefer the beauty and subtlety of martial arts to the brute power of firearms.
Private Information
You are a Double Agent. You use the information you gain in your Service position to help you in your true occupation, as a Ninja Assassin employed by the Ono Yakuza clan. Your father was also a Ninja - his tremendous arrest record for the Service was simply part of his way of eliminating competition for his underworld activities.
Two of your brothers were also Ninja and were killed in underworld brawls rather than in performance of their Service duties. Your youngest brother was actually an honest man born into a family of thieves. When he found out about the family's secrets he threatened to report the entire setup to the authorities. Upon your father's orders, you cut out your brother's heart and decapitated him . . . and then you disguised the crime scene to look like a rival Yakuza clan was responsible.
When you were young, you were madly in love with a Chinese boy apprenticed to your father's ninja school. He had a large diamond shaped birthmark which covered his left eye. He studied to be an assassin and was sent to Ireland for his first mission, to eliminate a troublesome woman who had blocked the Yakuza's efforts to sell drugs in that country. While the boy was away, your father found out about the love affair and became very angry. He swore to settle things and that you'd never see the boy again. You never did. You've no idea what finally happened to him . . . if he died in Ireland or if he was killed by your father or if he became an assassin in the clan . . . since your father forbade you from ever asking about him, you never did.
Recently you have been involved in a secret scheme to sell more Chinese opium in the Western United States. This has been done with the cooperation of Henry Chaplin who thinks he's getting finances to perform a coup in the Service and set himself up as a secret master of the organization (he's really quite foolish on this point as you have no intention of allowing him to live to see the end of this year).
Goals
Find a way to eliminate Henry Chaplin while gaining control of his contacts in the United States to move your drugs into that country. Make certain that the person who is elected World Service Coordinator is someone you can control - barring that, you must take the position for yourself.
Copyright 1996 (1998), Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., C.H.
