Juro Horinouchi

Juro Horinouchi (, Horinouchi Jūrō) is an antagonist featured in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. 
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Horinouchi has medium-length slicked-back hair that starts to grey due to his age.
==== Attire ====
He has two attires: first, a pinstriped charcoal grey suit with gold/black tie, matching pants, and a pair of leather shoes, and a full Metropolitan Police Commissioner's uniform.
=== Personality ===
Horinouchi is a stoic man who presents himself as an upstanding defender of the law. In truth, he is opportunistic, and more concerned with his own position in the police force than the dispassionate carrying out of justice. This is evidenced by his framing of an innocent man for robbery and homicide, as a false arrest would tarnish his chances of getting a promotion to Tokyo PD, and his silencing of the man who sought to expose the injustice.
Although he looks down on yakuza, he does not appear to be above colluding with them for his own gain, as he co-operated with Ryo Aoki's Kamurocho 3K Plan, as well as the aftermath that allowed the Omi Alliance to filter into Kamurocho after the Tojo Clan's departure, in exchange for bribes from the now-Omi Arakawa Family.
== Background ==
Horinouchi was serving in Kanagawa Prefectural Police as Koichi Adachi's superior before Adachi's demotion to DMV. After a murder case that featured a repeat offender as the prime suspect, Horinouchi ignored testimony that proved the man's innocence and forced the case through, in order to ensure his promotion to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Adachi also believes that Horinouchi used his influence with the Public Security Bureau to snuff out the information Adachi leaked regarding the accused's innocence, leading to Adachi's demotion.
== Involvement ==
=== Yakuza: Like a Dragon: 2000-2019 ===
Horinouchi visits a cabaret club for the first time, and is paired up with Yumeno. When Ichiban Kasuga and Masato Arakawa visit the cabaret club for her birthday, Horinouchi is already her client. Kasuga attempts to persuade, then threaten him to leave, but he refuses. Masato then attempts to pay him to leave, but he refuses this as well before revealing his identity as a police officer. Later, Horinouchi is speaking to the hostess in the men's bathroom, mocking Masato for being the son of a yakuza, as well as for being foolish enough to fall for her honey trap.
Horinouchi later marries Yumeno and is promoted to Police Commissioner, later spearheading the Kamurocho 3K Plan that Ryo Aoki brings in as Governor of Tokyo. He also receives under-the-table payments from the Arakawa Family to ignore the Omi Alliance's expansion into Kamurocho, money he would later also provide to his allies within the police.
After Masumi Arakawa's death, he briefly appears to accuse Aoki of ordering the hit on Ryuhei Hoshino, which Aoki denies. Later, when a ticker appears at the Citizen's Liberal Party election counting claiming the governor had been indicted, Aoki calls Horinouchi to demand answers, which he cannot provide. Horinouchi suggests to Aoki he avoid the Millennium Tower, which Aoki ignores.
After Aoki's death, Horinouchi is called to a private meeting on the rooftop of the Tokyo PD's Kamurocho headquarters by Adachi. The former detective reveals he had discovered data in the Arakawa Family office that pointed to bribes paid to and from Horinouchi from the Arakawa Family, a fact that the flustered Horinouchi denied. The commissioner ordered officers to arrest Adachi, though the latter explained that he had already provided the information to higher-ups within the police, leading the officers to apprehend Horinouchi instead. As the disgraced commissioner is dragged away, Adachi briefly considers reminding him of meeting Kasuga eighteen years prior, but stops himself.
== Gallery ==
YLAD - Character Render - Juro Horinouchi.png|Horinouchi's full-body render
Light and Shadow 14.jpg|Horinouchi in 2000
Category:Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Characters
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Antagonists
Category:Kanagawa Prefectural Police