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| “ | Mashashi Kyojo: The Covenant could bring together all the Buddhist factions in Asia - 500 million strong. A huge step in furthering Japan's noble mission - to unite all of Asia in peace and security - under our benevolent guidance, of course! Itaki: Of course! Masashi Kyojo: The Covenant of Buddha will make Japan the craddle of the new messiah! We must have it!! |
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| ~ General Mashashi Kyojo to Sergeant Itaki. |
| “ | And you, who have failed me... I leave you to fulfill your destiny! | „ |
| ~ Kyojo ordering his tree Sanskrit experts to commit "Hara-Kiri" for their failure. |
General Masashi Kyojo is the main antagonist of the 1993-1994 comic book miniseries Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient, the second Indiana Jones comic series published by Dark Horse Comics.
He is a deranged Japanese colonel who serves as his country's attaché at Delhi, India as Japan prepares its entrance into the forthcoming World War II. In 1938, upon becoming aware of the Covenant of Buddha's existence, Kyojo decides to find it before Indiana Jones does to use all treasures stored inside to advance Japan's mission over Asia.
History[]
Masashi Kyojo is an Imperial Japanese general who works, by 1938, at the Japanese Embassy of Delhi, India as his country's attaché. One day, however, Kyojo receives the unscrupulous South African archaeologist Theo Van Aaken, who tells him about his rival Indiana Jones being looking with his friends for the Covenant of Buddha, a mystical scroll which can unite all Buddhists in Asia, like with the dozens split over Sri Lanka, Tibet, Mongolia, China and Kyojo's own Japan, which would compose a powerful and unstoppable force. Intrigued at the possibility of Japan unearthing the Covenant to advance her "friendly mission" in Asia and already having spies at Indy's camp, Kyojo makes sure Van Aaken hasn't told anyone about it and shoots him dead before proceeding to gather his men to look after the Covenant and possibly some treasures allegedly hidden inside the temple where the Covenant must be, desiring to gain possession of the Covenant to become the world's next messiah and conquer all of Asia for his country.
As part of the race for the Covenant, Kyojo hires a Sherpa spy to check on Jones and then orders his troops to ambush some bandits attacking the train in which Jones, his love interest Sophia Hapgood, his guide boy Khamal and Dr. Patar Kali were travelling, only to find out that they had already left, leading his troops to murder most of Kali's men thanks to the spy. Concerned of the American's involvement, Kyojo requests Sergeant Itaki to track down Jones and murder him and also threatens three cryptologists of his who are experts on Sanskrit to decipher some of Buddha's ancient writings or commit Hara-Kiri.
Despite Itaki doing as he commanded and his unit murdering most of the companions of Jones' party, Kyojo realizes that Jones can still be useful for him to track down the Covenant of Buddha without him having the clues, so he has one soldier snipe Itaki dead as he prepared to kill Jones and then has his three experts commit Hara-Kiri over their failure.
Later on, Kyojo and his men corner Jones and his friends, accompanied by the Serpent Lady and her rebels, over a ravine's bridge at Szechuan, China. Kyojo demands the Serpent Lady's men to hand Jones over to them and he will cease fire, but the Serpent Lady refuses. As he still needs Indy, Kyojo orders his men to hold on their fire and leave, but secretly leaves two snipers to kill anyone who isn't Jones that tries to cross the bridge, but the Serpent Lady sees through this after one of her men dies and kills the snipers. She and her men then bomb the ravine out, burying alive most of Kyojo's troops, much to his anger.
Without any time to lose, Kyojo requests the assistance of Colonel Watanabae and his men so they can stop Jones when he leaves a train that is taking him to Hankow, Nanking, but Jones and his allies leave the train beforehand and are captured by Ch'ao the Red and his barbarians, leading Kyojo to force the train's engineer to take them to where Jones is and order his men to contact the Kwantung High Command to deploy their forces. Tracking them down to Ch'ao's village just as Jones and his friends were about to be ganged up for killing Ch'ao, Kyojo orders his men to airbomb the village out and dispatches an armored car to go after Jones' party, who are all escaping in a jeep.
As Jones and his friends fight against Kyojo's men, Kyojo finds his own way into the Temple of the Covenant of Buddha and reaches the room where the artifact is hidden. Eager to finish Jones off so he would stop messing his plans, Kyojo takes his gun to shoot him dead, but Jones disarms him with his whip, unknowingly hurting Kali accidentally, and the two engage in a fight. Confident at his victory, Kyojo pulls out his katana and announces to Indy that he will behead him and then do the same to all people in the West one day, but Jones outsmarted Kyojo and knocked him out before he and Kali proceeded to uncover the Covenant, which ironically was lost forever due to a following earthquake that brings the temple down. Although Indy tries to save Kyojo, Kali insists him to save himself, which he does, allowing an unconscious Kyojo to be crushed to death by a statue of Gautama Buddha, ending with Kyojo's plans before they could even start.
External Links[]
- Masashi Kyojo on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Masashi Kyojo on the Indiana Jones Wiki
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