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Yamagato Industries | |
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Programmers sit in their cubicles at Yamagato Industries. | |
Location: | Tokyo, Japan |
Purpose: | Business |
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Yamagato Industries (山形 Yamagato) is the company that Hiro and Ando work for as programmers in Tokyo, Japan.
Notable Employees
- Dai (works for Yamagato Fellowship)
- Kin Egami
- Yoji Hayata
- Jiro
- Ando Masahashi
- Hiro Nakamura
- Kaito Nakamura (former Chief Executive Officer, former President of Yamagato Fellowship)
- Kimiko Nakamura (Chief Executive Officer, President of Yamagato Fellowship, former Executive Vice President of Yamagato Industries)
- Rosetti
- Taro
- A unnamed cubicle employee
- Another unnamed employee
Notable Visitors
About
Genesis
Hiro first discovers his powers in his cubicle and rushes to tell Ando, excitedly running about the cubicles. He is scolded by his boss.
Don't Look Back
After teleporting to an future New York, Hiro phones Yamagato to talk to his friend Ando, still in the present.
Graphic Novel:The Crane
Hiro, wanting to live up to his grandfather's legacy, throws away his Yamagato ID badge.
One Giant Leap
At the office, Hiro tries to convince Ando of his powers and shows him the comic from the future. They decide to leave their jobs and begin their mission.
Nothing to Hide
In Charles Deveaux's apartment, Peter reads the New York Telegraph, which reports that Yamagato's stock is down to 215 and an eighth.
Six Months Ago
Hiro tries to call Ando at work, and instead encounters himself from six months ago. Later, Hiro accidentally teleports to the current-day roof of Yamagato where another employee asks why he's returned from America early.
Distractions
Hiro's sister tells Hiro that Yamagato is financially failing. Hiro devises a way to help his father realize that Kimiko is capable of taking over the business.
How to Stop an Exploding Man
Hiro returns Ando to Yamagato after rescuing him from Sylar and gives him Kensei's sword as a promise that he will return.
Graphic Novel:Heroism is Found in the Heart, Part 1
After Hiro drops Ando off at Yamagato, Ando is assigned a new position. He works late, waiting for Kimiko, and walks her home. Outside the office building, they are confronted by a group of sword-bearing bikers.
Graphic Novel:Heroism is Found in the Heart, Part 2
Outside Yamagato, Ando helps Kimiko to dismount one of the bikers. Kimiko and Ando mount the freed motorcycle and head off into the streets of Tokyo, but the bikers give chase.
Kindred
Ando plays a video game in his office, but is interrupted by his boss. His boss mentions that being friends with the CEO does not mean he can play games at work, and Ando apologizes. Ando opens a file and finds Hiro's sword. Examining the sword, he finds text at the bottom of the sword reading "Ando, open". In it, he finds several scrolls. Hiro tells him that he's in 1671, where he met Takezo Kensei. Hiro tells him he must stay to make Kensei the man they know. He mentions that Kensei has a great power.
Out of Time
Ando is working at his desk when Hiro appears. Hiro learns they stopped the explosion and tells Ando he wishes to see his father. Ando tells Hiro that his father has been murdered.
Truth & Consequences
Hiro and Ando look at a photo of twelve people. He says he needs to find Kensei to get revenge. Ando is skeptical, but Hiro tells him that he saw Kensei on the Deveaux rooftop, just before he pushed Kaito to his death. He asks how Kensei could live for over four hundred years, and Hiro tells him that Kensei could heal from any wound and that perhaps he has also survived time. Hiro realizes that he must have left a trail.
Hiro finds a picture of a young Victoria, Kensei and Kaito. He looks on the back to see that Kensei is going by the name Adam Monroe. Recognizing that name, Ando pulls out a packet with Adam's name on it. Inside they find a paper dated November 2, 1977, which is an order to lock away Adam, signed by Hiro's father, Kaito. Before Ando can convince him otherwise, Hiro teleports himself to that day.
Hiro returns from 1977 and retrieves his sword from Ando, determined to avenge his father's murder. He says that he must go to Odessa, Texas and teleports away.
Powerless
Ando walks back into his cubicle to find Hiro already there. He asks about Adam, and Hiro replies by saying that Adam will no longer harm anybody.
Graphic Novel:Past Experience
Kimiko remembers a conversation she had with her father: he was interested in the past and a depiction of Takezo Kensei, while she was more concerned with the future and the problems Yamagato was facing. Later, after Kaito's death, Kimiko is made the CEO of the company and the President of Yamagato Fellowship. In her office, she mediates a petty argument between Jiro and Taro by remembering what Kensei did to Oni's sword.
Graphic Novel:The Kill Squad, Part 1
Rosetti recalls being stationed under Yamagato, keeping tabs on Hiro.
Graphic Novel:Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, Part 2
Daphne Millbrook enters Yoji Hayata's office at Yamagato. After a brief encounter with his men, Daphne acquires the information she needs from Hayata and quickly flees Yoji's office to regroup, racing through the building to the roof, then leaping to the next building.
Notes
- The employees have scheduled workout times on the roof of their building. This is common practice throughout Japan, called calisthenics.
- In The Crane, it is spelled differently — Yamagoto Industries.
- Yamagato produces software which auto translates most of the entries on Hiro's blog.
- Kaito keeps a satellite office in the Kirby Plaza building. (Four Months Later...)
- According to the episode commentary for The Second Coming, scenes that took place in Hiro's office were filmed on the 51st floor of the Arco building.
Trivia
- It is still unknown who will take over Kaito Nakamura's position as leader of Yamagato. It is possible that his daughter, Kimiko, will take over, as she is the Executive Vice President.
- The clock in Hiro's cubicle consists of kanji, Chinese characters, that represent the text "One", "Two", etc. instead of the numerical values "1", "2", etc. Modern clocks in Japan typically show the latter.
- Hiro is a programmer with a level 3 security clearance. His ID number is 651283461132, and he is referred to as "a lowly office drone". (The Crane)
- Part of the Heroes Evolutions experience, yamagatofellowship.org is the real-life website for Yamagato Industries which is headed by Kaito Nakamura.
- After returning from America, Ando has placed an American flag on his desk. (Kindred)
- The kanji for "Yamagato" (山形) translates approximately to "mountain shape" or "shape of mountain".
Gallery
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Hiro's desk at Yamagato Industries is immaculate.
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Ando works at Yamagato.
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Hiro shouts in the middle of his office.
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Hiro's boss drags Hiro out of the office.
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According to The Crane, Hiro throws away his security card before leaving for New York City with Ando.
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Employees have a workout session on the roof of Yamagato Industries.
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Kaito reassigns Ando to Hiro's position.
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Ando and Kimiko appear startled by a a group of bikers outside Yamagato.
See Also
- For other uses of Yamagato, see Yamagato (disambig).
- For the gallery owned by Yamagato Industries, see Yamagato Fellowship.
- For the Heroes Evolutions website about Yamagato Fellowship, see yamagatofellowship.org.