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When most people think of Arasaka, the picture in their minds is that of the black-clad guards employed by so many corporations, businesses, and powerful individuals throughout the world.
~ Unknown, Corporation Report 2020 Volume 1.

The Arasaka Corporation are the main antagonists of the Cyberpunk franchise.

It is a Japanese global conglomerate headed by the ruthless Saburo Arasaka, and one of the most powerful and influential corporations in the world, having a hand in various business sectors such as manufacturing, security and banking. Like other corporations in the Cyberpunk universe, Arasaka uses ruthless, unlawful methods and tactics in order to maintain dominance over its corporate rivals (most notably Militech) and rule over the general populace with an oppressive iron fist.

Unethical experiments, arms trafficking, espionage, nothing is off of the table for the most powerful megacorporation in the game.

They are the direct rivals of Militech, the rockerboy Johnny Silverhand, and V, the player character of Cyberpunk 2077.[1]

History[]

The Arasaka Corporation was founded in 1915 as a manufacturing company by Sasai Arasaka. Taking full advantage of the Second World War, Arasaka quickly increased its wealth and power as a supplier for the Imperial Japanese military. However, Sasai had forseen the defeat of Japan, and preemptively took steps necessary to maintain his wealth following the Allied victory by diversifying his company's holdings around the world.

Following Sasai's death in 1960 at the age of 101, his son, Saburo, who had served as a fighter pilot during the war, became the Arasaka Corporation's new CEO. Under Saburo's leadership, Arasaka would grow exponentially in wealth, power and influence as he expanded its services into banking and security. Having predicted the global market crash of 1994, as well as the collapse of the United States in 1996, Saburo was able to take steps to ensure that his company would be one of the few that would profit from these events, emerging as one of the most powerful megacorporations in the world.

Trivia[]

  • According to the Big 5 Employers of Night City, Arasaka has its employees agree to a twenty year loyalty obligation, which apparently is quite low compared to other megacorporations.
  • The Kang Tao A-22B Chao is rumored to have been made from stolen Arasaka blueprints.

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Arasaka Corporation
Executives
Saburo Arasaka | Yorinobu Arasaka | Hanako Arasaka | Tanaka Sr. | Kate | Douglas
Employees
Adam Smasher | Anders Hellman | Goro Takemura | Arthur Jenkins | Sandayu Oda | Susan Abernathy
Arasaka Academy
Tanaka | Katsuo Tanaka

NUSA
Rosalind Myers | Song So Mi | Solomon Reed | James Norris

Gangs & Criminals
Fixers
Faraday | Dexter DeShawn | Kirk Sawyer | Mr. Hands | Sebastian Ibarra | Wakako Okada

The Valentinos
Gustavo Orta | José Luis | Raúl Welles

The Maelstrom
Royce | Brick | Dum Dum | Patricia

Voodoo Boys
Maman Brigitte | Placide

Tyger Claws
Oswald Forrest | Maiko Maeda | Norio Akuhara | Jotaro Shobo | Hiromi Sato

Animals
Sasquatch | Angie Whenlan

Moxes
Anna Nox

Scavengers
Nika Yankovich

BARGHEST
Kurt Hansen | Chester Bennett | Jago Szabó | Yuri Bychkov | Leon Rinder | Carl "Dodger" Robinson | Albert Murphy

Others
6th Street | Biotechnica | Cyberpsychos | Gottfrid and Fredrik Persson | Jackie Welles | Jimmy Kurosaki | Kiwi | Militech | Peter Pan | Scavengers | Triads | Unnamed cyberpsycho | V | William Hare

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