Sōkaiya (総会屋, sōkaiya) (sometimes also translated as corporate bouncers, meeting-men, or corporate blackmailers) are specialized racketeers unique to Japan, and often associated with the yakuza, who extort money from or blackmail companies by threatening to publicly humiliate companies and their management, usually in their annual meeting (総会, sōkai).
Conversely, if they are paid, they will work to prevent others from embarrassing the company, either through intimidation or by disrupting the mee...