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Japan Investigates Bank Loans to Gangsters

Flickr / Canadian Pacific
Flickr / Canadian Pacific

One of Japan’s biggest banks has admitted doing business with gangsters. That revelation is putting new attention on the relationships between banks and organized crime in Asia’s second-largest economy. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.

Bill Dorman has been the news director at Hawaiʻi Public Radio since 2011.
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