Job opportunity: Blue-eyed debt collector

[Taro Toporific]

FEATURE "Blue-eyed" debt collector fights shady image in Japan
Forbes - Aug 21
TOKYO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - "Are you with the yakuza?"
The question is so commonplace for Steven Gan that he effortlessly uses it to launch into his vision for changing the image of one of Japan's most feared and reviled industries -- debt collecting.

<last part> ...There are some cases that Gan would probably rather have lawyers deal with anyway. In one, a client assured him the "debtor" was willing to pay promptly and persuaded Gan to reduce his fees because the job would be simple and payments would always be on time.

And so it proved, until the police dropped by to tell Gan he had unwittingly been a conduit for a money-laundering operation.

Payments stopped a short while later. Gan heard nothing more.

[Taro Toporific]

The dark side of Japanese financeJapan Entrepreneur Report No. 17 March 2004 by Tim Clark
Speaking the polite Japanese of a seasoned businessman, the well-dressed visitor to Steven Gan's cramped Tokyo office introduced himself as an "investigation services colleague," so Mr. Gan invited him inside to get acquainted. For a few minutes, the two men made chitchat over cups of old mugicha barley tea. Suddenly, the stranger's face darkened. "What the hell do you think you're doing, trying to collect debts here in Tokyo?" he growled in the unmistakable slang of the yakuza, Japan's mafia. He pointed at Mr. Gan with fingers mimicking a gun. "Get out of this business now, or...bang!" ..

[Big Booger]

Still there is nothing like busting a few kneecaps for the money owed.. and the obligatory "fuck you" from the person getting the knee capped.

[American Oyaji]

Had it been me, there would have been some furniture moving in that place.

He would have disappeared in that office.