Makoto Date

Detective Makoto Date (伊達 真, Date Makoto), also known as Mako Date in the western version of the first Yakuza, is a police detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He has appeared in every one of the Yakuza games that features Kazuma Kiryu as a playable character (with the exception of Yakuza 0), and throughout Kiryu's saga, Date has been one of his longest-running supporters.