Rina Higashikata

Rina is a youthful Japanese woman whose face is distinctly square, and she is most often seen wearing a yukata. Early on she keeps a traditional hairstyle, though she later appears with her hair gathered into a ponytail.

She is described as a devoted and tender wife who kept her faith in Johnny even as her mysterious ailment took hold, trusting him to find her a cure. Once healed by the corpse fragments, her worry turned at once to her son, who had caught the same affliction.

Rina first crosses paths with Johnny aboard a transatlantic ship carrying them and her father Norisuke back to America after the race. The two fall for one another, marry, and settle together on a ranch. In time she is struck by an incurable sickness that erases her memories and leaves her skin stiff and creased like folded paper, and Johnny brings her home to Morioh to spend what look to be her final days.

Determined to save her, Johnny returns to New York to reclaim the Saint's Corpse, and its power cures her, only for the disease to pass on to their son. Johnny ultimately uses Tusk to draw the illness into himself, giving his own life for his family. In the aftermath, Rina is accused of his murder but goes free for want of evidence.