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Haruka Sawamura (Japanese: 澤村 遥, Hepburn: Sawamura Haruka) is a fictional character from Sega’s action-adventure game series Yakuza. Introduced in the first Yakuza game, Haruka is a young child who is looking for her missing mother. The character Kazuma Kiryu adopts her to protect her from multiple clans from the Tojo clan who are seeking her. Across the series, Haruka grows up alongside her adoptive father, debuting as a playable character in Yakuza 5 working as an idol and starting her own family in Yakuza 6. Haruka is voiced by Rie Kugimiya in Japanese, and by Debi Derryberry in the English version of the first game.
Haruka was created by Sega writer Toshihiro Nagoshi as an alternative protagonist besides Kiryu due to her growth in her debut. Although initially disappeared in Yakuza 6, Nagoshi wrote the narrative in order to make the appearance of her son Haruto be the center of Haruka’s past once again. Critical reception to her Haruka