Etymology

sokaiya

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Today it means: A form of racketeer in Japan who blackmails companies by threatening to publicly humiliate their management. Full definition →

Japanese 総会屋
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from総会屋
  2. English todaysokaiya

Borrowed from Japanese 総会屋.

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