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== Profile ==
=== Background ===
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 [[w: Taipei|Taihoku, Taiwan]] with his longtime friend [[Genji Ronoue]]. After the [[w:1923 Great Kantō earthquake|Great
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 Italians arrived on the island in 1944 due 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 an interpreter as Kinzo was the only one of the Japanese that could speak the common language of English. Kinzo bonded with the Italian interpreter, [[Beatrice Castiglioni]], and the two became close friends. After learning about the [[Kinzo's gold|ten 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 Niijima 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.
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