History Characters / Yakuza6

* TookALevelInKindness: After Kiryu saves his life, he becomes much nicer almost immediately. Justified as he seems to prefer to show his nicer, more considerate side to people he cares and he spends a decent chunk of time being ''very'' resentful of Kiryu. When he finally decides to change his perspective of Kiryu, we get to see how he is around friends and allies. Not to mention, his new-found adoration for Kiryu probably does wonders for Nagumo's personality in terms of having a decent role model to follow.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Haruka fell in love with him after he beat up a paparazzo stalking her. He admitted after that everyone around had figured out her past as a former idol with a yakuza for a father. He said they all still played along anyway because they don't care about her dodgy past and simply love her for she is as a person.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshimasaHosoya

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Doronzu Ishimoto

* CounterAttack: When he [[TurnsRed HEATs up]] during the last time he's fought, he starts reacting to strong attacks with a [[GrappleMove kick followed by throwing Kiryu off his feat.]]

* {{Irony}}: He has a hakutaku on his back, which is a chimera mythical beast from Chinese lore said to devour bad dreams and experiences. Iwami ''creates'' them.

{{Irony}}: He has a hakutaku on his back, which is a chimera mythical beast from Chinese lore said to devour bad dreams and experiences. Iwami ''creates'' them.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nao Omori (Japanese), Creator/HowardWang (English)

* NobleDemon: While largely a result of lacking screentime, he comes across as being the member of the Yomei Alliance with the most moral standards. [[spoiler:In the ending, Daigo even points out his more noble actions described above, hoping that they indicate that he may be willing to form a pact with the Tojo Clan as the new Chairman of the Yomei Alliance.]]

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Unlike the majority of colorful, distinctive-looking villains that Kiryu's faced throughout the series, Tsuneo looks no different than your average Japanese salary man. With his plain haircut, unremarkable facial features, and dull overall presence, it can be quite a shock to realize that he's actually a devious criminal mastermind.

%%* BadassInANiceSuit

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nao Omori

* WeakButSkilled: Hirose himself is of course far from being physically weak and is the most dangerous assassin in Hiroshima, but when faced with ''Kiryu'', he falls straight into this, as while his skill with his knives makes him a formidable opponent, he ultimately doesn't have it in him to defeat the legendary Dragon of Dojima who is both extremely skilled and physically powerful, not to mention that Hirose is at his 80s while Kiryu is only at his 40s, meaning that he was up against someone who has the advantage in physical fitness and the skill to make full use of such advantage. It shows itself by how he is one of the more fragile bosses, being easier to damage and overpower when it comes to a physical clash, and while he fares a lot better than any other opponent shown in the game, managing to leave Kiryu a bit battered, it's clear he was fighting a losing battle.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Averted '''hard.''' There are zero lows he won't stoop to in order to achieve his goals. He is willing to murder his own father, innocent people, and ''infants'' to get what he wants.

* HateSink: In a series that usually manages at least one of these per game so as to give our heroes and the player some serious motivation to kick their asses, it should tell you something that Tsuneo stands out as one of the most absolutely vile of the bunch. The moment his true nature is revealed, the game quickly establishes that there isn't a single line Tsuneo won't cross in the name of ambition. He'll gladly murder countless people, including children and his own family members, all for the sake of fulfilling his petty, self-centered pride. He also holds absolutely no honor, refusing to engage his opponents in a fair fight unless driven to a corner. It's very telling that Tsuneo ends up being one of the very few villains whom Kiryu utterly ''detests'' and wants to destroy for good.
** Should you pause the game during the fight, Kiryu's thought on the current situation is a particularly and fittingly blunt ''"He means nothing to me."''

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Like several {{Final Boss}}es in the series, he may attempt to pull this on Kiryu with his charging [[GrappleMove]]s though it's rather telegraphed and even if he does land it, it just takes some mashing to get throw him off.

* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:Once it finally dawns on him that he's hopelessly no match for the Dragon of Dojima, he pathetically tries to beg Kiryu off from pounding on him some more, but the Dragon makes it gravely clear that he has no intention of stopping until Tsuneo's face is reduced to a bloody, lifeless husk. Tsuneo barely manages to avoid a much deserved death by ordering his associate, Sugai, to kill the nearby Haruka, thus forcing Kiryu to switch priority and go save her, but not before he lands one last brutal punch that knocks Tsuneo out cold.]]

A former IJN admiral turned politician. He was the one responsible for the secret construction of the Yamato Mark II battleship in Onomichi, built on the illicit funds of the Omi Alliance who controlled Hiroshima's shipyards. After Kurusu, the chairman in charge died, he uses his influence from this to help prop up the Yomei Alliance and ensure their secrecy in exchange money and power. He appears near the end of the game, advising Tsuneo to turn on his father and become the new Chairman of the Yomei Alliance.

* VillainousLegacy: Even after his death, his personal faction still has great political influence, with Kiryu being forced to become an agent of theirs in exchange for keeping Haruka and the kids safe.

[[folder:Yuta Usami]]

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Like several {{Final Boss}}es in the series, he may attempt to pull this on Kiryu with one of his PPGrapple Move}}s though it's rather telegraphed and not too difficult to throw him off should he land it.

* UnskilledButStrong: He does pack a decent punch, but his fighting skills are rather basic and quite pathetic compared to the other powerful opponents who have given Kiryu an actual fight. He can harm Kiryu sure, make him bleed a little, but in a straight fight, his lack of skill makes it easy for Kiryu to pummel him to submission and cutscenes wise, he clearly doesn't land any more hit apart from the one he dealt when Kiryu couldn't fight back, as there was no other injury on Kiryu's person apart from the wounds he had suffered before.

** BigBadWannabe: However, as much as he want to believe himself in control, it's made pretty clear that he is just a washed-up tool and Tsuneo's PuppetKing for the Tojo Clan.

* TheStarscream: He make pretty clear to Kiryu that he intends to supplant Sugai as the eighth chairman some day.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: He's completely jacked. But they appear to be largely for show, as his actual fighting skill is utterly pathetic. Sure he hurts quite a bit but it ''really'' doesn't take much effort to outmaneuver and humiliate him.

* ClimaxBoss: Fought in the tail end of the game and ultimately more difficult than the actual FinalBoss with several substantial revelations following his defeat.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He lost his family to the atom bombs on the eve of WWII, and started his own gang at the young age of 14. However, after breaking into the shipyards, he is brought under Heizo's wing as a sort of surrogate son, only be used as his personal assassin years later.

* FragileSpeedster: [[{{Acrofatic}} Despite his bulk,]] he's quick on his feet being a bit more mobile than the the other Hirose Clan members, has some quick attacks, and blocks attacks well. That said, he doesn't have many hard-hitting attacks and tends to go down quicker compared to Yuta.

* TheSmartGuy: Though rather sensitive, Naoto's easily the smartest and tech-savvy among the Hirose Clan. He even manages to figure out the key to decoding Hirose's riddle in order to discover the secret of Onomichi.

* ButtMonkey: In general, he tends to get picked on by the other Hirose members, from getting slapped by Nagumo during his introduction scene to Hirose randomly wrestling him to show off his ski mask. If that's not enough, Yuta spends half of chapter 6 having a PottyEmergency and then [[CurbStompBattle gets effortlessly defeated by Joon-gi Han]]. Even after he's been through several dramatic scenes culminating in an intense BossFight, he gets unceremoniously handcuffed by Detective Date supposedly for burning down Little Asia and trying to kill Big Lo but actually just to make sure he stays out of Kiryu's business and focuses on supporting a comatose Haruka.

* ButtMonkey: In general, he tends to get picked on by the other Hirose members, from getting slapped by Nagumo during his introduction scene to Hirose randomly wrestling him to show off his ski mask. If that's not enough, Yuta spends half of chapter 6 having a PottyEmergency and then [[CurbStompBattle gets effortlessly defeated by Joon-gi Han]].

-->''spoiler:...They are pawns, unworthy of bullets.''

* GlassCannon: There's real power behind his individual attacks especially on higher difficulties, and cutscenes show that he's strong enough to do much more damage to Kiryu than Sugai hitting him with ''a metal pipe''. But the ease with which Kiryu can whittle down his health bar makes for the frailest FinalBoss Kiryu has had to deal with in the entire series. Which makes sense considering that while Iwami does manage to train his body in preparation for becoming a big shot in the underworld, he's never gotten into any real physical scrapes until his fight with Kiryu.

%%[[folder:Hikaru]]
%%A kind and demure hostess. Unlike others in her line of work, Hikaru is very quiet and soft-spoken.
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%%[[folder:Sora]]
%%!!!'''Voiced by''': SORA
%%A Taiwanese hostess who is head-over-heels for Japanese culture. In her off-time, she enjoys anime, manga, and cosplay.
%%[[/folder]]

!Other

[[folder:Haruto Sawamura]]
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Surprise! The secret infant son of Haruka, conceived during the 4-year prison sentence Kiryu served. After Haruka is left comatose protecting him from what was most likely a hit, Kiryu takes it upon himself to protect and take care of Haruto, while also trying to discover the father of Haruto as well as the motives behind Haruka's accident.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: [[DownplayedTrope ...Not exactly]]. Haruto's sudden appearance has raised more questions in the big picture. And while Kiryu, nice guy that he is, isn't at all upset by Haruto's existence, his presence does now complicate things with the newfound danger toward him and his mother.
* ButNotTooForeign: He's half-Chinese on his father's side.
* CheerfulChild: The little babe is an adorable bundle of joy, and provides much of the cuteness throughout Kiryu's investigation.
* LickedByTheDog: Haruto gets awfully friendly with various folk, including Toru Hirose, the admittedly jovial boss of the Hirose Clan who is also a ruthlessly efficient assassin.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being just a baby, his very existence [[SpannerInTheWorks threw the mother of all spanners into the plot]] by attracting the attention of Kazuma Kiryu. In this regard, Haruto fulfilled a very similar role his mother did during the events of the very first ''Yakuza'' game - more than a decade before his own birth.
* WhosYourDaddy: This is one of Kiryu's many questions upon his release from prison. It turns out to be Yuta Usami due to a one-night-stand.

[[folder:Jiro Honjo]]

When Haruka was involved with the hit-and-run in Kamurocho, he was the first to notify Date about the accident. He's an experienced detective and is knowledgeable about Kamurocho's underworld. However, he believes in upholding the law above all else, so he disapproves of Date and Kiryu's relationship, seeing it as collusion.

* ByTheBookCop: Takes the letter of the law far more seriously than his colleague [[CowboyCop Date.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Distrusts Kiryu despite multiple other members of the Police Department like Date, Sudo, and Tanimura knowing he's actually a truly good guy despite his criminal past. [[spoiler:Worse, he assumes Date had kidnapped Haruka and Haruto and are holding them against their will instead of hiding them for their own safety. He leads a pair of Iwami thugs disguised as cops right to him and dies as a result.]]
* InspectorJavert: Downplayed at first. He brings up the the fact [[spoiler:that since Kiryu and his Hirose Family friends were the first to discover Tatsukawa's body, they could have been the ones responsible for his death and perhaps even altered the corpse to match the Saio Triad's M.O. and frame them.]] While he doesn't act upon it, he clearly doesn't trust Kiryu as an ex-yakuza.
** [[spoiler:Played much straighter later when he gets information on Date keeping Haruka and her son Haruto discretely hidden in a Police Hospital believing it to be a case of kidnapping and not realizing that this is all part of Tsuneo Iwami's plan. He goes to arrest Date with two fellow cops who quickly reveal themselves to be Iwami's men and he's quickly shot through the heart dying instantly.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Unfortunetely. Aside from showing Kiryu the scene of Haruka's hit-and-run as a favor to Date, his main role as a police officer in the plot is to just make bad calls, [[spoiler:the last of which gets himself killed, Date injured, and Haruka and Haruto kidnapped.]]
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Plays a very similar role to Junichi Sudo from the first game being a ByTheBookCop foil to Makoto Date and not trusting Kiryu but he doesn't have [[BrokenPedestal any of the history]] that Sudo and Date have. [[spoiler:Where they differ most is that Honjo dies before ever getting the chance to trust Date and Kiryu more.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Gets fooled into thinking Date kidnapped Haruka and Haruto instead of keeping them hidden for their protection. He tries to arrest Date with two cops and instead gets shot through the heart as the two were actually thugs working for Iwami.]]

[[folder:Kiyomi Kasahara]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yoko Maki
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The owner of Snack Kiyomi, a local bar in Onomichi. She catches the eyes of a number of men, but her involvement in the mystery behind Haruto's conception and the events around it are more than it seems.

* AlliterativeName: '''K'''iyomi '''K'''asahara.
* AmicableExes: Downplayed, she and Someya are divorced, they keep their distances but Someya was still happy to see her in Onomichi, and when she was held hostage by the Yomei, Someya took his own life so she could be spared.
* BrokenBird: She felt the brunt of Someya's fall into cruelty, and tried what she could to escape with her daughter. However, only she was able to escape, and so lives with the guilt of being unable to also rescue her daughter or prevent Someya's fall.
* CutenessProximity: Immediately takes a shine to baby Haruto and provides assistance to Kiryu in his care.
* DamselInDistress:
** Kiyomi is kidnapped by Someya partway into the game, and so Kiryu and the Hirose Clan have to rescue her. Except she wasn't kidnapped. She was invited by Heizo Iwami, who made it seem like a kidnapping in order to have an opportunity to talk to Kiryu.
** She gets held hostage by Iwami and Koshimizu to blackmail Someya into fighting Kiryu, and Iwami giving him a SadisticChoice of either killing Someya so Kiyomi can be spared or he will take her life instead.
* DisneyDeath: She gets held at gunpoint by Koshimizu and [[GoryDiscretionShot gets shot just as the screen blacks out]] even after Someya commits {{Seppuku}} to save her life. In the epilogue, it's revealed that the gun Koshimizu was holding had blank rounds, and she wasn't shot.
* DudeMagnet: Someya aside, Nagumo and Ino harbor feelings for her since high school. However, she doesn't have any interest in them.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her experience in handling babies hints that she's had children before.
* InkSuitActor: She's modeled after her voice actress, Yoko Maki.
* MyGreatestFailure: Still deeply regrets how after her initial failure to escape from Someya with her daughter failed, she ran away on her own out of sheer desperation and left behind her daughter in the process.
* TheReveal: She's Someya's ex-wife, and the mother of their daughter, Hiromi.
* SecretKeeper: She along with the rest of the Hirose Clan knew Haruka from the very beginning, due to her idol past, and believed Haruto's father was Tatsukawa.

[[folder:Kazuaki Ino]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuyukiHiyama
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Owner of the local inn, which Kiryu stays in during his foray into Hiroshima.

* BigDamnHeroes: In the aftermath of the Jingweon Mafia successfully kidnapping Haruto and escaping on a boat, he gathers all the local fisherman together to band together and track down the his whereabouts. He personally mans the boat that Kiryu and the Hirose Clan use to spearhead the effort.
* DefrostingIceQueen: He's not exactly friendly at first with Kiryu, but gradually opens up a lot more.
* HopelessSuitor: Along with Nagumo, he's infatuated with Kiyomi, but Kiyomi isn't interested in either of them.
* TheRival: With Nagumo ever since they were kids.

[[folder:Minoru Daidoji '''(SPOILERS)''']]
!!'''Minoru Daidoji'''
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A former IJN admiral turned politician. He was the one responsible for the secret construction of the Yamato Mark II battleship in Onomichi, built on the illicit funds of the Omi Alliance who controlled Hiroshima's shipyards. After Kurusu, the chairman in charge died, he uses his influence from this to help prop up the Yomei Alliance and ensure their secrecy in exchange money and power. He appears near the end of the game, advising Tsuneo to turn on his father and become the new Chairman of the Yomei Alliance.

* CorruptPolitician: He is an influential elder statesman with deep connections to the criminal underworld.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: By the time the Yamato Mk. II was completed, World War II was already long over, and the battleship, built from embezzled government funds with the cooperation of criminals, only became leverage for Heizo to use against him. Not to mention that battleships in general were obsolete in favor of aircraft carriers at that point, and the original Yamato was a textbook example of AwesomeButImpractical.
* {{Foil}}: For Kyohei Jingu, as both are {{corrupt politician}}s who [[TheManBehindTheMan manipulate the yakuza from behind the scenes]] and have anyone who could ruin their reputation assassinated. However while Jingu compromised himself by sending in his own goons or getting involved in the situation personally, Daidoji is content to let the criminals sort it out for him, and as a result, Jingu is shady past is exposed while he's still a rising star in politics, while Daidoji is able to maintain his cover until he's already at death's door.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Kiryu never even meets him throughout the game, but Daidoji is ultimately responsible for the majority of events in the story.
* InSeriesNickname: "The Fixer of the Showa Era." He is known by this name more than his own, and exclusively called it in ''Like a Dragon''.
* KickTheDog: Orders Tsuneo to murder Kiryu and those close to him because he revealed the secret. Being sickly and already investigated on for his life as a fixer, he only does it for revenge.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The one who started the whole plot behind the secret of Onomichi, as he personally commissioned the Yamato Mk. II's construction using money embezzled from the government that Heizo was going to uphold his vow of building in exchange for money and influence.
* TheUnfought: Being a sickly old man on his deathbed, he obviously isn't in any fighting condition. However it was on his final orders that Tsuneo tried to eradicate anyone close to Kazuma Kiryu, as his induction into the Yakuza. He ultimately passes away peacefully in his sleep, unaware that Tsuneo has failed in their goal.
* VillainousLegacy: Even after his death, his personal faction still has great political influence, with Kiryu being forced to become an agent of theirs in exchange for keeping Haruka and the kids safe.