S" above it, presumably standing for "Fuck 'Saka". Johnny has a tattoo of a cobra on his right palm, with the letters "F. Wakako's contact icon features a snake, and she's closely associated with the Tyger Claws, who are stated to be sponsored by Arasaka. Jackie compares them to a viper pit in the corpo prologue and the official cover for "A Like Supreme", a song about the woes of living under megacorps features a cobra being disemboweled by a samurai sword. It was founded in 1915 by Sasai Arasaka, but remained rather small manufacturing company, until in 1960 son of Sasai, Saburo, former fighter pilot in IJN, stepped in. Villain with Good Publicity: It's referenced in the Cyberpunk 2077 Handbook that the megacorps of Night City control many of the media sources in the New United States, allowing them to hide evidence of their crimes from the public eye.Ī massive Japanese zaibatsu with presence in nearly every industry imaginable and a security force large enough to rival the militaries of many nation-states.Superpower: It's established in the lore book that Arasaka and Militech were the two main combatants during the Fourth Corporate War, with Arasaka noted to own an aircraft carrier. While they're responsible for much of the luxuries and pleasures V has and they have the option of working with them (though out of necessity), the game has no qualms about how the bottom-line is their priority in the end. Evil: Many of the mega-corps are engaged in a long-running series of espionage, wetworks, murder, sabotage, thievery, and even outright war, as seen in the Fourth Corporate War. Arasaka is just the most obvious since it's the biggest one in the setting and the one the player deals with the most.