Takeshi Yahara

Takeshi Yahara

Background

Takeshi Yahari is the president of Yahara Investments, Inc at 1240 Cotton Drive, North Vancouver, British Columbia. He served with the Japanese Royal Army in World War II as a first lieutenant pilot in the 31st Squadron and then as a part of the Special Attack Corps. During the war he was shot down and spent eight months as a POW.

During the events of Airwolf: Season 4 Episode 14 Ground Zero played by Seth Sakai

Yahara is watching battle footage from World War II. Hayashi walks into the room and gives him an envelope of photographs of Jo Santini, Mike Rivers, Jason Locke and St. John, and tells Yahara where they can be found. Yahara then watches the footage again. Yahara has a meeting with Hayashi, Kamiyama, Kimura and Fumio. Kimura pulls out a map and blueprints and shows Yahara a map of a nuclear facility and where to attack to cause a large scale nuclear disaster. Fumio tells Yahara that bombs have been placed on Yahara's plane along with other defensive weapons. Kamiyama tells Yahara that cameras and monitors have been placed as requested. Yahara orders everyone to swear their willingness to die. Hayashi goes first and writes a symbol on a piece of paper, followed by Kimura and Fumio. Kamiyama refuses to commit to suicide and he is beheaded by Hayashi.

Yahara and Hayashi go to Santini Air and Yahara is at first upset that St. John is not flying them, but then agrees to let Jo fly. Yahara orders Jo to fly towards the nuclear facility and Hayashi pulls out a gun. They enter restricted airspace and ground control orders them to identify themselves. Yahara tells Jo to correctly identify herself, apologize and turn around. Yahara shows a photo of Locke and Mike to Jo and then tells her if she gives him trouble, she will be killed. St. John goes to Yahara Investments and questions Yahara about Jo. Yahara pulls out an old photo and shows it to St. John, who recognizes one of the men in the photo as his father. Yahara tells St. John that Jo is his prisoner and then takes St. John prisoner. As St. John is trying to free Jo, Yahara and Hayashi walk in to the room and Yahara asks St. John if he knows fear, the same question St. John's father asked Yahara when he was a POW. Yahara pulls out a kitana and threatens to crack open St. John's skull with it. Kimura tells Yahara that his plane has arrived. Later, Jets are sent to patrol the nuclear facility.

Yahara gets into a restored plane which he flew in World War II and reminisces about the war. He flies the plane to Santini Air and Mike and Locke are taken hostage. Yahara threatens to kill Jo and Mike if Locke doesn't order the jets to leave. Locke makes a phone call and the jets return to base. St. John is brought outside to be executed and Yahara tells his followers that they are free to leave after St. John's execution. St. John manages to get away and kills Yahara's followers. Yahara flies in his plane while taunting Locke, Mike and Jo, who are forced to watch via a video feed as Yahara flies to his target. St. John gets into Airwolf and flies after Yahara. He shoots down Yahara's plane as Yahara tries to kamikaze the plane into Airwolf.