[AU72]

Weren’t these North Koreans running most of the Pachinko Parlors in Japan?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Yep. Many of those outfits went out of business.

[AdmSmith]

They are run by the Yakuzas (many are Korean). A nice state organized crime!

[gaijin]

Yeah, a lot of times the J relatives were getting called up in Japan and shaken down for cash, lots of other times they were willingly coughing it up. Years ago, cash from the Pachinko biz was VERY hard to trace --it was virtually all cash. Finally, the authorities made accountability much better.

Grilled meat places are often Korean-owned, and those owners get targeted as cash-cows a lot, too, by the DPRKs.