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*** They don't exactly advertise that they hire the Yakuza. Paying the Yakuza to commit crimes is less complicated than bribing various agencies over and over again - the Beijing police for the hotel raid, the Newark police for the bulk of the movie. And cops usually don't have expensive training and weapons.
*** No, they don't "advertise" that they hire the Yakuza, they just put them in middle-management positions overseeing entire global regions (Takahashi). Corporate relations to organized crime in this world were ''never'' exactly subtle. Even Jane knows that the Yakuza has great corporate ties.
**** Erm. I don't think Takahashi is a Yakuza, he's just a PharmaKom executive. Are you assuming he's a Yakuza just because he's Japanese? 'cause, y'know... that's not cool.
** Simple answer: The army and police are in the pockets of the megacorps collectively, rather than answering to any specific one. They're paid to look the other way, and maybe arrest a particular person every so often, and to not do anything that would jeopardize megacorp SOP, but they don't do whatever any one particular company says. Thus PharmaKom can't command the police and army to hunt down Johnny for them... but the police and army ''will'' look the other way when PharmaKom sends Yakuza in to do that job.
* The Lo-Teks fight their enemies with crossbows and falling cars, in accordance with their low technology values. They also hijack satellite television signals to broadcast their own messages '''globally''' and use a cyborg dolphin to [[Hollywood Hacking|hack]] into human brains.
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