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Don't get me wrong, formal business conglomerates do all kinds of crimes.

But confusing the yakuza & zaibatsu is kind of like confusing the Sicilian mafia with DuPont.

Yakuza: street-level vice. Gambling, sex work, mostly lower-class Japanese people & Japan-born Korean immigrants. The kind of crime that's fed by limited opportunities for marginalized people.

Zaibatsu: wealthy families who industrialized Japan. Very official. Crimes committed are of the white-collar variety.