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Izumi Takano
Age	18
Blood Type	AB
Appears in	Shenmue II

Izumi is a Japanese girl living in Hong Kong. She is a student the same age as Ryo and also works at the Tomato Convenience store in the Golden Quarter, Wan Chai. She becomes friends with Ryo after they find out they are both Japanese, and she also practices martial arts, sometimes taking part in events at the Pine Game Arcade close to where she works. Although she is in Hong Kong to study it's not clear what exactly she is studying.

Extra Scenes

Izumi is revealed to be a passerby character in the "What's Shenmue?" demo.

Fight against Izumi

The first thing you need to do is to meet both Eileen and Izumi. Izumi can be found working in the Tomato Convenience in the Golden Qtr, Wan Chai at all times. To meet Eileen however, you need see to get Fangmei to like you, which will "activate" Eileen and cause her to start appearing in Pigeon Park, Aberdeen. See Fangmei Birthday Event. Once you have met these two the next thing you need to do is get the Big Bronze Medal, which can be found in the Vacant Lot in the Green Market Qtr, it's located down an alley behind the Green Market Pawnshop. After completing these three things you can fight Eileen and Izumi on the 3rd floor of the Pine Game Arcade, Golden Qtr. Eileen will be your first opponent, you must beat her in order to be able to fight Izumi.

Go duck racing with Izumi

To do this event you need to have first beaten Izumi at the Pine Game Arcade fight. Once you've done that, go to the Tomato Convenience anytime and talk to Izumi, she'll take Ryo to a duck race nearby.

Major portions of this page were written by: LanDi Sama