Nobu Yoshioka

Nobu was a Japanese businessman with a mysterious agenda. As a member of Wilson Fisk's criminal cartel, his organization shared in the profits of all of the cartel's criminal activities.

Biography
Nobu acted as a representative for a mysterious Japanese organization to Wilson Fisk's criminal cartel. However, although his organization took an equal share of the profits, Leland Owlsley was unsure of what Nobu and his organization actually contributed. >Nobu disliked Fisk and Fisk's assistant/translator James Wesley, and frequently became furious when Wesley translated Nobu's insults in more polite terms, unaware that Fisk was perfectly able to speak Japanese. Nobu organized the delivery from Japan to New York City of a child referred to as a "Black Sky". He arranged for Fisk to bribe the police to stay away from the docks, however this did not account for Daredevil and Stick intercepting the delivery. Nobu blamed Fisk for this, but Fisk pointed out that he had fulfilled his obligations, which were limited to the police. Nobu became impatient when Nelson and Murdock delayed the eviction of all tenants of a particular building in Hell's Kitchen, and demanded that the building be delivered. Fisk offered other buildings, but Nobu insisted on the agreed building. Fisk suggested that Nobu provide a warrior to eliminate Daredevil in exchange for Fisk expediting evictions, knowing that Nobu's pride would make him take Daredevil on himself. This was a ploy by Fisk, who later admitted that he had decided to eliminate Nobu and that "in a perfect world" Daredevil and Nobu would have killed each other. Fisk killed one of the problematic tenants, Elena Cardenas, and then made an impromptu televised statement which subtly taunted Daredevil over his inability to protect her. He then allowed Daredevil to "discover" Fisk's whereabouts. When Daredevil followed this trail, he instead found Nobu in a warehouse, dressed in ninja garb. Nobu attacked and nearly killed Daredevil, but was knocked into fuel during the fight and was burned alive by a stray electrical spark.

Abilities

 * Master Martial Artist: Nobu has extense martial arts knowledge which enabled him to almost kill Daredevil, and slow his heartbeat.
 * Multilingualism: Nobu speaks very flequent English and Japanese.

Appearances

 * Daredevil
 * Season One
 * Into the Ring
 * World on Fire
 * Stick
 * Shadows in the Glass
 * Speak of the Devil