Akeno Uemura (born 1984) was a Japanese criminal who was affiliated with the White Edge street gang in Kabukicho, Tokyo during the 2000s. On 9 December 2005, he and several other White Edge gangsters were beaten down by the yakuza Kazuma Kiryu in the alleyways of the Golden Gai neighborhood as he searched for Haruka Sawamura's kidnappers.