After the events of Yakuza 2 / Yakuza Kiwami 2 Kiryu decides to move to Okinawa with Haruka. Due to his past experience as an orphan Kiryu decides to open up an orphanage in front of a beach to raise other orphans to live more honest and better lives then he ever did. Sadly just when everything seemed peaceful trouble looms when Morning Glory starts getting eviction notices from the landlords, the Ryudo Family. After a confrontation with its captain, Rikiya Shimabukuro, Kiryu has a talk with Patriarch Shigeru Nakahara, who intends to sell the land to Tokyo investors seeking to build a resort. Though the cash offer is sizable, Kiryu refuses. Things only get more complicated when both Daigo Dojima and Shigeru Nakahara are shot by a man with an uncanny resemblance to Shintaro Kazama, Kiryu's late adoptive father, together with a mysterious foreign agent. Determined to learn the truth about the man who shot both of them, and to avert a potential threat to the orphanage, Kiryu decides to return to Kamurocho.
