Story and Setting

9 Stranger Than Heaven pages in Story and Setting.

• Atami 1951Atami in Shizuoka, in 1951, is the fourth era of Stranger Than Heaven, a postwar seaside resort where Makoto Daito meets the American singer Suzy Day. As of Nov 3, 2026 SEGA had shown very little of it.
• Five Eras and CitiesStranger Than Heaven is set in five cities and eras of Japan: Kokura in 1915, Kure in 1929, Minami in Osaka in 1943, Atami in 1951 and Shinjuku in Tokyo in 1965, after a prologue in San Francisco. Each city is modeled on the real place of its time, with deliberate liberties.
• Kokura 1915Kokura in Fukuoka, in 1915, is the first city of Stranger Than Heaven, a smoke-filled foundry town where young Makoto Daito runs jobs for the smuggler Orpheus, meets Tae Matsumoto and fights the Oki Clan. It is modeled on the real Kokura beside the Yawata steelworks.
• Kure 1929Kure in Hiroshima, in 1929, is the second era of Stranger Than Heaven, a yakuza-run naval port where Makoto Daito joins the Iwaki Family and becomes known as the "Red Oni." Previews showed it under snow, with a fight arena and a masked killer.
• Minami 1943Minami in Osaka, in 1943, is the third era of Stranger Than Heaven, a wartime entertainment district including Sotenbori where Makoto Daito and Yu Shinjo go into show business and the singer Keiko Shirai, played by Ado, is the star.
• San Francisco 1915Stranger Than Heaven opens in San Francisco in 1915, where the orphaned Makoto Daito, wrongly accused of a crime, flees the police and stows away on a ship to Japan, meeting Yu Shinjo and the smuggler Orpheus on board. The chase doubles as the combat tutorial.
• Shinjuku 1965Shinjuku in Tokyo, in 1965, is the fifth and last era of Stranger Than Heaven, set in Kamurocho, the fictional district of the Like a Dragon games, where Masayoshi Yokoyama says a "tremendous secret" will be revealed. Almost nothing else had been shown as of Nov 3, 2026.
• StoryStranger Than Heaven follows Makoto Daito, the son of an American father and a Japanese mother, for fifty years from San Francisco in 1915 to Shinjuku in 1965, as he rises from stowaway to yakuza to showman and founds the Tojo Clan. This page tells the story as SEGA and pre-release previews have shown it, as of Nov 3, 2026.
• Tojo ClanThe Tojo Clan, the yakuza syndicate of the Like a Dragon games, is founded by Makoto Daito in Stranger Than Heaven, as SEGA's May 6, 2026 broadcast showed. RGG Studio still says the game is a new title in the same world, not a series entry.

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