What is "sokaiya"

n. A form of racketeer in Japan who blackmails company by threatening to publicly humiliate their management.

, (sometimes also translated as corporate bouncers, meeting-men, or corporate blackmailers) are a form of specialized racketeer unique to Japan, and often associated with the yakuza that extort money from or blackmail companies by threatening to publicly humiliate companies and their management, usually in their .