By Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com
Tokyo's organized crime exclusionary laws went into effect in October—and they're already creating havoc. The laws criminalize doing business with boryokudan ("violent group" or colloquially yakuza). In an ingenious twist, paying off the yakuza in an extortion racket is also a crime. Now restaurants have to stop paying protection money. Even victims of blackmail—hush money is an outright industry in Japan—commit a crime if they pay.
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