they may be influential, but i wonder how something like that would work?
you believe the different clans come together and decide who is going to threaten Sega for making a game?
i also see some potential for ridicule when the Yakuza start doing something like that.
"Japanese Mafia complains about Video game"
...wait, THAT would boost sales 
The game is amazing by the way, i even stopped playing Final Fantasy for now, since it doesn't let me go! I just wanted to look into it, but its so fun, i can't stop playing :)
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
