Kenji Kasen

Type	CHARACTER
Kenji Kasen
Appears in	Grand Theft Auto III
Voiced by	Les J.N. Mau
Biographical information
Full name	Kenji Kasen
Nationality	Japanese
Place of birth	Japan
Date of death	October 2001
Home	Japan Staunton Island, Liberty City
Family	Kazuki Kasen (brother) Asuka Kasen (sister) Toshiko Kasen (sister-in-law) Yuka (daughter or niece)
Main affiliation	Yakuza Asuka Kasen Ray Machowski Kanbu Claude
Vehicle(s)	Yakuza Stinger
Businesses	Kenji's Casino
Physical description
Gender	Male

Kenji Kasen is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a character in Grand Theft Auto III (set in 2001). He is the brother of Asuka and Kazuki Kasen, and the co-leader of the Yakuza alongside his sister Asuka. He is also the brother-in-law of Toshiko Kasen and may be the father of Yuka, Asuka's niece. He is voiced by Les J.N. Mau, who has also appeared in television shows such as Law & Order.

Character history

Kenji Kasen was born and raised in Japan with his siblings Kazuki and Asuka, joining the Yakuza gang before moving to the United States in 1996. He moved to Liberty City in 2001 and opened his casino, Kenji's Casino, in Torrington, the same place his brother Kazuki had owned his casino. Kenji joins his sister in becoming the co-leader of the Yakuza and begins to employ Claude on advice from his sister. He has Claude prove himself, despite Asuka's assurances, and, due to his fierce belief in loyalty, has him break Kanbu out of prison.

Kenji, impressed with Claude's ability, has him collect six sports car and deposit them in a garage, ambush a deal between the Colombian Cartel and the Uptown Yardies, collect briefcases of protection money and kill many members of the Uptown Yardies who were selling the drug SPANK.

Claude later begins to work for media mogul Donald Love who employs him to kill Kenji whilst posing as a member of the Colombian Cartel, driving a Cartel Cruiser, in order to drive down property prices. After his death, Kenji's sister Asuka launched a full scale war against the Colombian Cartel that resulted in her death

Trivia

• The player can kill Kenji before completing all of his missions, which will result in the player not being able to gain one hundred percent completion of GTA III.

Mission appearances

GTA III

• Under Surveillance
• Kanbu Bust-out (Boss)
• Grand Theft Auto (Boss)
• Deal Steal (Boss)
• Shima (Boss)
• Smack Down (Boss)
• Waka-Gashira Wipeout (Killed)

Gallery

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