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From: "michael a. lebowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Michael,
Can you explain why they 'wish' this tale true?
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Part of that wish may have something to do with the following tidbit from
the Far Eastern Economic Review:
"Ties between corporate Japan and the Japanese underworld are so extensive
it's impossible to even get a grip on where and how they're joined
together," explains Raisuke Miyawaki, a former head of the organized-crime
division at the National Police Agency and now an adviser to company's
seeking to cut ties to the yakuza. "For Japan to solve its long-term
economic problems, the only option is to purge the men at the helm of
companies sullied by ties to the yakuza, and start afresh."
http://www.feer.com/breaking_news/001122a.html
