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- Despite the stress of her new career, Haruka rises in popularity while working in Sotenbori, but is shocked when her manager Mirei Park dies, seemingly of suicide. She meets up with Kiryu's friend, money lender Shun Akiyama, and the two search for the truth behind Park's death, discovering that she was actually murdered.
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In Japan, the case is known as the "concrete-encased high school girl murder case" (女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件, joshikōsei konkurīto-zume satsujin jiken), as her body was discovered inside of a concrete-filled drum. The prison sentences served by the perpetrators ranged from 7 to 20 years.
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Appearance
Haruka's appearance changes significantly throughout the series as she ages where she is first seen as a young pre-teen girl with straight shoulder-length black hair held back by red barrettes on the left side with bangs swept to the right side and dark brown eyes. In subsequent games, she grows her hair out long enough to reach her chest in Yakuza 3, growing it out further and tying it back into a ponytail in Yakuza 5 onwards. In Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Haruka's hair is cut short, si...
Personality
Even as a young child, Haruka is a calm and level-headed girl who is often acting as a grounding force for her foster father, Kazuma Kiryu. Despite her age, Kiryu commonly leans on her for support with the other children at the orphanage. She is incredibly self-reliant and mature, seeking out work in order to help support her adoptive family, running errands on her own, cooking meals, and picking up the slack where Kiryu falls short, but still relying on him for certain matters. Her maturity...
Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami: 1996-2005
Haruka is born to Yumi Sawamura and Kyohei Jingu in 1996. She survives an early attempt on her and Yumi's lives, and grows up away from her parents in the safety of Sunflower Orphanage. Haruka is gifted letters by Yumi, who visits her under the identity of her supposed-aunt, "Mizuki Sawamura". One visit, she is gifted a pendant, after which "Mizuki" stops visiting. Afterwards, she runs away from the orphanage to search for her mother. Haruka is first seen observing a news report about a fight...
Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2: 2006-2007
Kiryu and Haruka have been living peacefully in Tokyo for the past year. On the anniversary of the 10 billion yen incident, they visit the graves of their loved ones who died in the chaos. Their prayers are interrupted by Yukio Terada seeking Kiryu's advice. After Terada is shot by Omi Alliance members, she accompanies Kiryu in the ambulance, where he "dies" from his wounds. Understanding that her adoptive father's sense of duty is calling him to action, she says she will stay in Sunflower Or...
Yakuza 3: 2007-2009
In January 2007, Kiryu and Haruka say their farewells to the friends they met over the past year before they move to Morning Glory Orphanagein Okinawa. There, Haruka takes on much of the responsibilities as the role of an older sister to the other orphans such as ensuring everyone follows house rules, preventing discussions from devolving into arguments, or letting Kiryu know of a problem with the other children she cannot solve. In March 2008, Haruka shows Kiryu another eviction notice the o...
Yakuza: Dead Souls: 2011
A letter arrives from Morning Glory with an invitation to a retirement party. Kiryu sends Haruka to go in his stead because he couldn't leave the other children alone, however the letter was a trap to lure Kiryu to Kamurocho and Haruka is kidnapped by Tetsuo Nikaido. Phoning Kiryu to prove he had kidnapped Haruka, Nikaido lures Kiryu into the zombie outbreak trying to get revenge for what the Tojo did to the Omi Alliance. At the end of the game, Kiryu and Ryuji Godaarrived and rescued Haruka....
Haruka is the first playable female character in the series. She is also the youngest playable character, at the age of 16 during her segments.In Judgment and Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the newspapers read by NPCs contain Haruka's article from 2013 featured in Yakuza 6.In Judgment, two figurines of Haruka are available as DLC.Haruka and the other kids from Morning Glory Orphanage affectionately call Kiryu "Uncle Kaz" (おじさん, ojisan, lit. "Mister" or "Uncle").Feb 17, 2022 · But as far as Shinji Minato and his friends, Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, and Yasushi Watanabe, were concerned, Junko Furuta was their captive, their sex slave, and their punching bag — for 44 days straight. After abducting her on November 25, 1988, they mercilessly tortured her for weeks on end.
May 17, 2024 · For between 40 and 44 days, Furuta was held captive by Miyano, who was a low-ranking member of the yakuza or Japanese mafia. He and his lowlife friends tortured, raped and brutalized Furuta on a daily basis.
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May 5, 2023 · The 1995 Japanese movie ‘Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds’ is based on Junko’s tragic murder and portrays how the perpetrators tortured and raped her for days before killing her in the most brutal way possible.
Introduced in Yakuza, Haruka is a young girl searching for her mother, Mizuki, who appears to be the sister of Yumi Sawamura. Haruka is also somehow connected to the Tojo Clan money that went missing before Kiryu's release from prison, and after finding her in the aftermath of a violent clash between Yakuza, Kiryu decides to protect her and ...
Dec 19, 2023 · On November 25, 1988, four male teenagers raped, tortured, and murdered a 17-year-old girl named Junko Furuta in Adachi City, Japan. The perpetrators physically abused the teenage girl for over...
