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Kinzo was born into a branch of the then-weakening Ushiromiya family in [[w:Odawara|Odawara]]. He spend most of his childhood in his hometown of Taiwan with his longtime friend [[Genji Ronoue]]. After the [[w:1923 Great Kantō earthquake|Great Kanto Earthquake]], family elders of the main branch appointed Kinzo as family head as a puppet in order to further their own agendas. Kinzo was forced to marry the daughter of an aristocratic family and fathered [[Krauss Ushiromiya|Krauss]], [[Eva Ushiromiya|Eva]], [[Rudolf Ushiromiya|Rudolf]], and [[Rosa Ushiromiya|Rosa]].
 
Kinzo enlisted himself in the military at the start of World War II and was tasked with setting up facilities for the Navy construction team. As a result, he was stationed at a remote military base on [[Rokkenjima]] in order to help construct a hidden armory of [[w:Kaiten|Kaiten torpedoes]]. A group of Italian alliesItalians arrived on the island in 1944 anddue to a gas leak on their submarine which killed a majority of their crew. Kinzo was chosen by [[Minor characters in Umineko no Naku Koro ni#Lieutenant Yamamoto|Lieutenant Yamamoto]] to be thean interpreter as Kinzo was the only Japaneseone soldierof the Japanese that could speak the common language of English. Kinzo bonded with the Italian interpreter, [[Beatrice Castiglioni]], and the two became close friends. During a conflict regarding the 10 tons of gold the Italians were storing on the island, Lieutenant Yamamoto decided to attack the Italians and steal the gold. The Japanese sneak attack failed and a fight broke out between both sides which ultimately ended with every soldier of both sides dying, save both Kinzo and Beatrice. The two escaped to the nearby island of [[w:Nii-jima|Niijima]] with a few of the gold bars which Kinzo used to revive the glory of the Ushiromiya family. It was on NijimaNiijima that Kinzo met [[Terumasa Nanjo]], the doctor who would treat Beatrice's wounds from the fight and later become one of Kinzo's closest friends.
 
During Kinzo's glory days as the wealthy Ushiromiya head, Kinzo had an affair with Beatrice and fathered [[Beatrice Ushiromiya|a child]]. Beatrice died during childbirth, causing Kinzo to fall into madness and invest himself almost exclusively in the dark arts in an attempt to revive her. His illegitimate child grew to resemble heavily his dead lover and Kinzo, in his madness, believed her to be the reincarnation of Beatrice herself. He forced himself on her and eventually fathered [[Sayo Yasuda|another child]]. In order to cover this up, Genji Ronoue asked Krauss's wife [[Natsuhi Ushiromiya|Natsuhi]] to take in the child and raise it as her own.