The yakuza plays a similar dispute-settlement role to the mafia

Evidence

A survey of over two thousand Japanese firms shows that the yakuza is also frequently involved in settling disputes connected with automobile accidents and bankruptcy (Repubblica, November 22, 1990). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 975

Categorization

• XREF: Cross-national replication of the private-protection market — supports the generalizability of Gambetta’s model beyond Sicily, relevant to the reader’s theoretical mapping.