CHARACTER Yuka
Appearance(s):	Grand Theft Auto Advance
Full name:	Yuka
Gender:	Female
Place of birth:	Staunton Island
Home:	Staunton Island, Liberty City
Nationality:	Japanese-American
Family:	Kenji Kasen (father or uncle) Asuka Kasen (aunt) Kazuki Kasen (father or uncle) Toshiko Kasen (mother or aunt) Kanbu (possible relative)
Main affiliation:	Asuka Kasen Yakuza

Yuka (Japanese: 優香) is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears in Grand Theft Auto Advance (set in 2000). She is the niece of Yakuza co-leader Asuka Kasen and may be the daughter of either Kazuki and Toshiko Kasen or Kenji Kasen. She is not voiced in her appearance.

Background

Yuka was born and raised in Staunton Island, Liberty City. She visits her aunt Asuka and begins to attend a local school, in Bedford Point on Staunton Island.

Events of GTA Advance

At the end of one school day she is kidnapped by Mike, working on orders from Colombian Cartel leader Cisco, who planed on using her to blackmail Asuka. Asuka, however, contacts Mike and, unaware of his role in kidnapping her niece, has him rescue a grateful Yuka. Following his success, Asuka begins to employ Mike but later leads him into an ambush with the Mafia, suggesting that Yuka may have informed her aunt of Mike's involvement in her kidnapping. Asuka, concerned with her niece's safety, sends her back to Kenji possibly. Yuka's kidnapping also appears to have influenced Asuka, who has Claude prove that his ties with his former employer, Leone Family Don Salvatore Leone, by killing him.

Mission appearances

GTA Advance

• School's Out
• Kid's A Hero

Trivia

• Yuka is possibly in her late teens, as she expects her limo, suggesting she may be a high school student (judging by her school uniform) or a graduate student.