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“ | Nothing can bring Tamiko back, but I am glad the man who did this will pay for his crime. | „ |
~ Yoshida before his arrest |
Hiroshi Yoshida is the main antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Gaijin". Yoshida is a Japanese nightclub owner who ordered the murder of his wife Tamiko.
He was portrayed by Will Yun Lee, who also portrayed Tan-Sun Moon in Die Another Day and Wei Shen in Sleeping Dogs.
Biography[]
“ | New York is a jungle, and its inhabitants are animals. I blame the gun-crazy U.S. culture for my wife's death. The city of New York must pay. Tamiko was proud of Japan. This would never happen in a civilized country like Japan. | „ |
~ Yoshida's propagandist statements against U.S. crime in Japan |
Yoshida vacationed in New York City with Tamiko, hoping to kill her in the U.S and blame her murder on the national crime rate. Their marriage was unhappy, and Yoshida had hefty gambling debts to organized crime in Japan, which would've been solved from Tamiko's life insurance policy. Meeting with Yakuza gangster Bobby Ito at a restaurant, Yoshida successfully arranged for Ito to kill Tamiko and injure Yoshida in a shooting. He lied to the police a black man was the shooter, then return to Japan to bury Tamiko and campaigned against the U.S.'s violent crime.
Ito was tracked, so with his cooperation to testify against Yoshida, Yoshida returned to the U.S. when the detectives lied he needed to identify a suspect. Yoshida was arrested once he stepped off his flight and taken to trial. His primary defense was that the Yakuza ordered Tamiko's murder, the prosecution worrying a jury would sympathize and hang. In the end, Yoshida was convicted and sentenced to prison.
Trivia[]
- Yoshida is inspired by spouse killers Kazuyoshi Miura, Anthony Ler, and Chuck Stuart.
- The episode title, "Gaijin", is a Japanese pejorative term meaning "foreigner", usually in references to citizens outside of Japan. The use of the pejorative as the episode's title is a jab at a Japanese citizen in America who faces trial for murder, as well as international relations between the U.S. and Japan.
External links[]
- Hiroshi Yoshida on the Law & Order Wiki