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I haven't been to Japan in four years, but I remember there was this big 
thing about blackmailing corporations, and all sorts of scams and false 
lawsuits. 

What about the visits to the war criminal shrine? I haven't kept up on 
it, but I think the last prime minister (the new one has only been in a 
power a few months) visited and said a prayer.


>and, they just passed a law of some kind, outlawing the Yakuza in a big way.
>So big, in fact, it's really putting them out of business to the extent that
>Chinese Tongs are coming in and taking over!
>
>I even visited a spa (bathhouse) that had a big sign out front, "No
>Yakuza"...  so it seems popular opinion and action is moving away from that
>type of thing.