Ena Nakano

Ena Nakano is a current employee of Militech that is stationed in Night City with the Militech Security Services. Born in 2032, Ena grew up in Japan and enlisted into the Japan Self-Defense Forces at 18 years of age. He served within the Maritime Self-Defense Force and with the Maritime Interception Team for a number of years till joining the Foreign Interests Group.

Deploying with the FIG, Ena conducted several clandestine missions across the Pacific Rim and Southeast Asia. In 2066, he was found guilty of bribery and kicked out of the unit, followed by a dishonorable discharge from the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Not long after his release, he was approached by a Militech recruiter to become a contractor for Lazarus Group and Militech Military Contracting.

Ena deployed across the world in search of contracts and work becoming a full-time employee in Militech Military Contracting. He served in Europe before transferring to America. In America, he hunts enemies of Militech utilizing his skillset as a valuable agent to the corporation.

Maritime Interception Team
Joining the Maritime Interception Team, Ena deployed to support the Japanese Fleet throughout the Pacific Rim against piracy and maritime terrorist activities. He first served as an Assistant Sniper aboard a Helicopter Interdiction Team to prevent boats and other maritime crafts from becoming a threat to Japanese cargo. While the deployments were long and tedious, he saw a lot of action involving boat takedown, enemy helicopter interdiction and, maritime craft boarding. Ena registered his first takedown when shooting the engine of a boat from 100 meters away. Throughout the rest of his deployment, Ena transformed into a strong sniper and brilliant tactician who led maritime boarding if the Special Boarding Unit wasn't available for response.

Following his next rotation, he took command of a Helicopter Interdiction Team and the troops aboard. Ena spent his time reading about leadership, military tactics, and many other books on being a better soldier. His unit became one of the heaviest deployed since they were in piracy season, they netted over 63 takedowns and boardings across a nine-month deployment. The capture of pirates and terrorists skyrocketed with Ena's unit and made him a household name throughout the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Conducting another rotation, he began setting records within the MIT and took the eyes of the Foreign Interests Group recruiter. Even with his impressive start to a career, he still had not faced a crisis that makes or break combat leaders.

During one mission, he was shot down by an enemy helicopter and left stranded till a nearby aircraft carrier scrambled support. Ena worked to deploy a life raft, account for his troops, and ensure the pilots were safe while being harassed by an enemy helicopter. A jet destroyed the terrorist helicopter in one swing, and an SBU arrived to transport the MIT detachment back to base. FIG saw their candidate showcase real leadership during a crisis and excelled at his task. FIG recruiters met with Ena and offered him a spot at tryouts, seeing if he was capable of becoming an operative for Japan's elite SOF unit. Passing through assessment, Ena joined the elite group to protect Japan's interest, both domestic and abroad.

Foreign Interests Group
Joining the Foreign Interests Group, Ena spent time as an assault team member, where he assisted in several raids across the Pacific Rim. Conducting a variety of missions throughout the Rim, he assisted in securing resources for Japan along with taking out terrorist cells that ranged from illegal biological enhancements to counter-proliferation. Members within the FIG considered Ena to be one of the better operatives to operate with the unit but were concerned about his motives from time to time. After years of making his way up in the assault teams, he joined a reconnaissance and surveillance unit that conducted clandestine operations that the Japanese Government didn't want the public to know about. Not long after joining the unit, Ena began deploying around the globe, where he assisted with low-visible operations.

Operating around Southeast Asia and near Malaysia, he made a name for himself as an expert singleton operative that did not need to rely on assistance or backup. Ena advanced his career by training with Japanese intelligence agencies to make himself a far more versatile operative. Along with being deadly aboard, he participated in several domestic operations, many that were covert due to the nature of his work. Pursuing networks both domestic and aboard, Ena led a small team that hunted transglobal criminal organizations that threatened Japan's national security. Since he operated under different covers and identities, Ena began to work outside of Japanese laws and doctrines to accomplish missions because government officials were reluctant to get their hands dirty.

While on deployment to Fiji, Ena worked with local officers from Japan's intelligence agency to confirm a terrorist's safe house and allow FIG to tap into the network. Contradicting orders from FIG's command, the government intervened and directly ordered Ena to kill the terrorist to protect Japan's homeland. Ena received a green light and captured the terrorist, rather than killing him and used a decoy body to show the Japanese Government that he had protected the homeland. The snatch team drove to an undisclosed safe house where the terrorist was interrogated and told that the Japanese Government was blackmailed into diverting Japan SOF units on uncovering a criminal organization that worked to infiltrate the Japanese Military forces. An Intelligence Officer executed the terrorist shortly after and ordered Ena to begin working closer to the Second Intelligence Department.

Ena became a dual operative for the Third Intelligence Department and FIG, making him one of the few who ever achieved the feat in their military career. However, he conducted several low-visible operations on the domestic side, where he tracked politicians and policymakers to find out who had been blackmailed. Focusing on the Ministry of Defense, Ena took note he was the one who intervened and further probed the Minister's actions to see who ordered her. Coming upon a private meeting, Ena learned about the Minister meeting with the Third Intelligence Department Director. He tracked the Director to Okinawa, where he located a covert military base that trained terrorists and supplied them with arms to carry out attacks. Ena and those who were working together hid the discovery and began to plan a way of taking down the base to protect Japan.

The Covert Favor
Arriving at Okinawa with a Third Intelligence Department officer named Yuki Anzai, who spent time in the Special Forces Group, the two took advantage of the bad weather to infiltrate the base and place explosives to destroy the terrorist camps. Throughout the night, the two spent their time evading patrols and taking down lone guards to keep their identity protected. Ena arrived at a Data Center where the officer tapped in to gather names and targets. During the data extraction, Ena tied up a computer scientist to keep their cover and quickly joined the intelligence officer to take down the Camp Director. Both of them came across a medical lab that conducted illegal experiments on civilians who didn't consent to the procedure. The injustice of what was happening to civilians drove Ena to enact justice on the Camp Director.

Ena made it to the Camp Director's office, where he tied up the official and tortured him for information. Getting what he wanted, the Director was then killed by Yuki, and the two rigged the body to inflict more damage on those who supported the decisions. Planting the last of their explosives and destroyed a majority of the infrastructure before returning to a boat. The two prepared to hunt down the list across Japan and other countries, either capturing or killing them. Making their way to Palau, they discovered a group of political influencers who worked with the Director of the Third Intelligence Agency. Both Ena and Yuki captured the leader and gathered information about an attack on Toyko. They quickly learned the Director of the Third Intelligence Department authorized it to support better national security.

The two arrived and went to work on collecting information about a terrorist cell preparing to attack during Golden Week. Ena located the cell in a nearby apartment and assaulted it with her. Both eliminated the majority of the forces and interrogated the surviving leader to gather information about any other cells. Alerting the Special Assault Teams nearby, Ena took down one more cell as Yuki provided support and actionable intelligence. A nearby SAT patrol pursued him suspecting he was a terrorist and forced Yuki to intervene to allow Ena one more chance to take down a suicide bomber. Making way into an alley, he killed the final terrorist and began to escape with Yuki, but the two were captured before they were made it to safety. The National Police Agency, Third Intelligence Department, and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force launched investigations on Ena and Yuki operations.

Fallout and Discharge
In an investigation by the Ministry of Justice, Ena was found to be operating illegally by the Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Despite his actions saving the local population during Golden Week, the Government sought to remove him from his position as a military operative and citizen of Japan. FIG did quick work to disavow and label him persona-non-grata while the Maritime Self-Defense Force pushed him to serve jail time. The Ministry of Justice worked together to strip him of citizenship and deport him from the mainland, the ministry also worked with the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry to blackball Ena from working with any Japanese businesses abroad. While the Ministry of Justice filed their requests, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a Burn Notice on him and informed allies of his capabilities. By the end of the trial, he was no longer a citizen of Japan and escorted out of the country.

While Ena's career was destroyed in the investigation, he learned that the Director of the Third Intelligence Department was probed, and his actions were brought forward. The Director was arrested and served a term in jail, which allowed Ena to not receive a jail sentence due to the result of his activities. Before leaving Japan, Ena was told that if he were ever to come back, he would be killed before being arrested. He arrived in Hawaii days later to see all of his bank accounts shut down, no legal identification, and a surveillance team tracking his movement. Seeing Yuki in Hawaii, he conducted dead drops and spy tactics to lose tails so he would meet safely with her. He learned that she met the same fate as him, and her entire life had been setback due to the activities they conducted together. Yuki worked her contacts in Militech to find a source of revenue, despite Ena's protest on working for the mega-military corporation.

Both Ena and Yuki met with a Militech Contracting Recruiter, hoping to receive some sort of payment. He was tested to determine his capabilities against the regional office and proved he had skill sets that the company desired to acquire. However, he made the recruiter hire Yuki with him since they were a deadly duo that had the option to operate with no red tape. Being accepted, they reported to a local Lazarus Group office to gather clothes, gear, identification, and anything else to conduct missions abroad for Lazarus Group. They prepared for Kenya, where the rampancy of crime and instability proved a perfect hunting ground to test their abilities. Losing the JSDF surveillance team, Ena and Yuki departed to Kenya using their tradecraft skills to make sure no one knew where they headed.

Lazarus Group
Arriving in Kenya, Ena quickly learned about the proxy wars being waged between Militech and Arasaka. Since the end of the Fourth Corporation War, the two megacorporations remained at the head of one another, and Arasaka saw Ena as a target due to his previous background in the JSDF. He made quick work of the tails tracking his movement as well as gathering missions to conduct for Lazarus Group. Hired as a Long Range Recon Special Team, Ena and Yuki set out to track a shipment. The two located Arasaka special agents and gathered information around the Nairobi Regional Office.

Hearing about a shipment of Arasaka RDAK Spy & Assassin Remotes, Ena and Yuki moved in on a warehouse they gathered from the special agents.

Skills and Abilities
As a former Japanese Self-Defense Force operative, Ena trained to be an expert in clandestine and covert operations. His knowledge as a reconnaissance and surveillance focused sailor made him one of the best operatives in the FIG. Being someone who had the capabilities of blending into civilian populations to conduct close-target reconnaissance, track high-value targets, and perform low-intensity conflicts made him an attractive person to send on some of the most daring missions Japan had to offer. Receiving training from Japanese Intelligence Agencies helped Ena become a self-dependent operative to build networks and increase mission success by using espionage and human intelligence to verify a target.

Throughout his life, he has trained in close-quarters battle, marksmanship, hand-to-hand combat, along with several other skills. He is most known for being an outstanding sniper who has extreme patience. After his time with the military, Ena took extensive training in personnel protective details, advanced vehicular maneuvers, and mobile protection. Ena went through further training with Militech that included interrogation techniques, law enforcement training, and advanced site protection. He became an exceptional solo operative who was able to complete dangerous missions.

Relationships
Yuki Anazi is Ena's closest friend and wife; they met while they were uncovering the Third Intelligence Department Director's activities against the Japanese Government. Both of them served in the Japanese Self-Defense Force at the highest levels, bringing mutual respect to their skills and traits. Yuki tracked Ena to Hawaii, where the two met again and began working as Private Contractors for Militech in South-East Africa. The two began dating in Kenya and spent their time protecting each other from Arasaka assassins. After five years of dating and traveling around the world, the two married and joined Militech Security Services as full-time employees. Yuki continues to serve as Ena's handler for missions across the world.