The world is high. The whole truth about the international drug business (№ 417205)

Also popular in the 1980s was a special (and very Japanese) type of corporate blackmail called sokaya, in which the yakuza bought enough stock in a company to gain admission to the AGM. There, these people began to behave like complete assholes, yelling, not allowing anyone to insert a word, and press charges against management until they were agreed to pay. Some shouted "Banzai!" and "Long live the emperor!" - it is difficult to imagine a more ridiculous method of extortion.