Mitsuko Nakamura

Mitsuko Nakamura is the Director of Research of Abstergo Industries' Lineage Discovery and Acquisition, a division based in Philadelphia. As such, she is also a member of the Inner Sanctum, which acts as both an elite council for the Templar Order and Abstergo's board of directors.

Biography

Abstergo Files

In October 2012, details of the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order were made available to recruits of the second stage of the Animi Training Program. Kept in a dossier of Abstergo Files, the one pertaining to the Inner Sanctum was entitled "File.0.17\Ins_InnerSanctum" and included the names and positions of all its members, Nakamura being one of them. Revealing her affiliation with the Lineage Discovery and Acquisition department.

Milton Jones' ancestry

On 16 December 2013, Nakamura was notified of the discovery of Milton Jones' ancestral ties to the Assassin Adéwalé by Dr. Damian Saravakos, revealing that while they may not find new artifacts in his memories, the genetic memory would be valuable to the employees at Abstergo Entertainment.

Meeting with Isabelle Ardant

On 15 October 2015, Nakamura had a conference with Isabelle Ardant, details of the meeting where kept in Ardant's calendar, which was visible to the Assassins Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings when they infiltrated Ardant's office to plant a bug.

Induction and Exoneration of Simon Hathaway

In October 2016, she was present during the initiation of Ardant's successor Simon Hathaway into the Inner Sanctum. Ten days later, Nakamura was among those who voted to clear Hathaway of all the charges brought against him, convinced by his speech and that his shady actions were in fact carried out for the benefit of the Templar Order.

Meeting the Black Cross

In March 2017, the Inner Sanctum invited the new Black Cross to a meeting in Quebec, during which Nakamura was present. Displeased that he auto-proclaimed himself their inquisitor, they threatened him and demanded to know his identity. The masked man responded that he came only as a courtesy, to inform them that he was investigating a hostile fifth column within the Order. After affirming his independence, the Black Cross dropped a smoke bomb and disappeared.

Attempted Abstergo account breach

In November 2017, the Templar fugitives Thomas Adler and his wife Alice tried to hack Nakamura's Abstergo account to learn more about Project Rainbow, as the access to the intel about the 1943 secret project was reserved to Inner Sanctum members only. However, the Adlers failed to do so and they instead hacked the account of Alan Rikkin, who recently died and whose account was consequently less protected.

Overseeing Noa Kim

Nakamura ordering the abduction of Noa Kim

In 2023, Nakamura traveled to Abstergo's Macau facility to oversee the progress of Doctor Shimazu Sei's mission to locate a Piece of Eden found by the British Assassin Edward Kenway in Asia. Having abducted one of Kenway's descendants, a Korean-American student by the name of Noa Kim, Sei placed him in the Animus in the hopes of discovering the artifact's current whereabouts from Kenway's memories.

Nakamura oversaw the procedure and commented on the high number of desynchronization errors, believing they could become a problem down the line. However, Sei assured her that this was a sign of the test subject being strongly synchronized with the ancestor and that they had taken the necessary precautions to ensure the subject's well-being until they obtained the information they sought. Nakamura then reminded Sei of the importance of the mission's success before leaving to return to Abstergo's headquarters.

Behind the scenes

Nakamura's non-canon appearance in Les Deux Royaumes' comic

First introduced only by name in Assassin's Creed: Revelations Mitsuko Nakamura's first appearance in person was as a man despite having a Japanese female given name, in the now non-canonical modern day storyline of the French Assassin's Creed comic series. This non-canonical version of Nakamura was responsible for giving the direct orders to the Templar agent Vernon Hest. Subsequent entries in the franchise again only mentioned Nakamura by name and it wasn't until Assassin's Creed: Heresy that Nakamura was confirmed as a woman canonically.

Gallery

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  Mitsuko Nakamura in Forgotten Temple

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed (Les Deux Royaumes comics) (first appearance, non-canon)
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (mentioned in Database entry only)
• Assassin's Creed: Heresy (first canon appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Uprising
• Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple

References

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