"I can't go into any details about Yakuza 8 yet," Ryo Ga Gotoku Studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama said. "But I can reveal it will be a continuation of [Like a Dragon], set a few years later."
While Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi has left the studio alongside director and producer Daisuke Sato, the series is continuing - there's a new Judgment, Yakuza, and original IP in the works, but interestingly enough, it looks like the fictional world will catch up with ours.
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