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The problem you have is that you don't have practical experience living and working in the country and haven't been able to develop a feel or "bullshit radar" f

The problem you have is that you don't have practical experience living and working in the country and haven't been able to develop a feel or "bullshit radar" for how things work there. The 1991 act was just another sham which was set up for show, i.e. to convince Japan's overseas trading partners that it is cracking down on organised crime. It's just a document Japan can always point at and say "see we have outlawed the Yakuza, aren't we just like you?",similarly how you just did ;-) You simply need to understand that in Japan, that the insight you made: "Yes, Konami is well known for its shitty business and toxic inside culture but that can always happen without Yakuza ties" is simply wrong. Companies who behave like this in Japan are not normal companies. They always have ties to organised crime, full stop. No normal company would risk being seen as a black kigyō, because like I tried to explain above, the divisions between those companies and reputable companies in Japan are extremely strong and there is no gray area. From your name, I reckon you are culturally inclined to perpetuate false myths out of some East Asian pride reflex?

lifthrasiir 5y ago
If you had enough insight to infer my nationality (which is not even a secret), you should have also inferred that most Koreans have no f---ing reason to have "some East Asian pride reflex" right? You really sounds like some random Westerner who happens to know something about Japan and is desperately trying to overgeneralize that to other Asian countries. By the way, the same can be said for most Koreans. In fact Koreans don't like Japan so much that there are widespread false beliefs about Japan---say, the social acceptance of the Adult Video industry (which still doesn't exist) or the fabricated reporting of COVID-19 cases (which might or might not have been happened, but if it did happen, was not that excessive as the rumor suggested) or even that there is zero stigma about game centers (there is, but not to the extent you have initially suggested). There are also many true beliefs that I can independently verify from multiple sources, including those about the modern Yakuza. But you seem to believe that the Japanese society is so conglomerated that it can make any such source up to cover its innards and you can only trust insider's accounts (and I do have plenty from my friends in Japan). How am I supposed to rationally continue this discussion given that?
fomine3 5y ago
As a Japanese, I can say "Yes, Konami is well known for its shitty business and toxic inside culture but that can always happen without Yakuza ties". Other Japanese people would agree. Working environment in some Japanese company could be terribly bad for worker. See "Most Evil Corporation of the Year" award. Stop trolling. You should have any source to say "this company is operated by yakuza".

lifthrasiir 5y ago

If you had enough insight to infer my nationality (which is not even a secret), you should have also inferred that most Koreans have no f---ing reason to have "some East Asian pride reflex" right? You really sounds like some random Westerner who happens to know something about Japan and is desperately trying to overgeneralize that to other Asian countries. By the way, the same can be said for most Koreans. In fact Koreans don't like Japan so much that there are widespread false beliefs about Japan---say, the social acceptance of the Adult Video industry (which still doesn't exist) or the fabricated reporting of COVID-19 cases (which might or might not have been happened, but if it did happen, was not that excessive as the rumor suggested) or even that there is zero stigma about game centers (there is, but not to the extent you have initially suggested). There are also many true beliefs that I can independently verify from multiple sources, including those about the modern Yakuza. But you seem to believe that the Japanese society is so conglomerated that it can make any such source up to cover its innards and you can only trust insider's accounts (and I do have plenty from my friends in Japan). How am I supposed to rationally continue this discussion given that?

fomine3 5y ago

As a Japanese, I can say "Yes, Konami is well known for its shitty business and toxic inside culture but that can always happen without Yakuza ties". Other Japanese people would agree. Working environment in some Japanese company could be terribly bad for worker. See "Most Evil Corporation of the Year" award. Stop trolling. You should have any source to say "this company is operated by yakuza".