Kazuya Mishima

Kazuya Mishima is a character in the Tekken series. Kazuya has been featured in Tekken, Tekken 2, Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken 4, Tekken 5, and Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection. Also, Kazuya has been confirmed to be in Tekken 6 and Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion.

Kazuya Mishima is the son of Heihachi Mishima, and the grandson of Jinpachi Mishima. He is also the father of Jin Kazama and occasional partner of Jun Kazama (they share an awkward relationship, in which was never fully explained by Namco themselves). He also has an adopted brother named Lee Chaolan, who Kazuya has never liked and shares a rivalry with.

It also appears that when Kazuya was a child, he had a special bond with his grandfather. He respected Jinpachi more than his father. It is also assumed that Jinpachi could have been responsible for the original form of the Devil Gene. It appears that only this Gene is passed down through Grandsons, in this case Kazuya Mishima, and Jin Kazama, Jinpachi's great grandson. Heihachi cannot attain the Devil Gene if this is true, but overall he is supposedly as strong as the ones that have the Devil Gene, which is quite possible, considering the extreme amounts of physical damage he has survived in the past. Due to genetics it could be assumed that Heihachi is a 'black sheep' of sorts, in that the gene for devil control skipped a generation, such as the genetics for black colored sheep do.

When Kazuya's name is written in Japanese, it's translated as 三島 一八(Mishima Kazuya) or みしま かずや(Mishima Kazuya)

Kazuya got 八(hachi or pachi or ya) from 平八(Heihachi) of a name of father and followed 一(ichi or kazu) which meant a beginning because it was the eldest son. The notation that 一八 is rare in Japan. Two numbers continue. 一 is 1. 八 is 8. However, his name is also an anagram of the word "Yakuza" with regard to English lettering, which befits his personality and choice of dress.