Tokyo: About 1,000 police fanned out across Tokyo in a dragnet aimed at nabbing gangsters notorious for extorting companies on Japan’s busiest shareholder meeting day of the year.
The annual cat-and-mouse hunt targets hoods who threaten to disrupt investor gatherings unless the company hosting the event pays them off, a longstanding racket known as sokaiya in Japanese.
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