But Japan’s long-floundering economy has eaten revenue from traditional activities that required muscle, such as gambling, prostitution, and loan-sharking. For example, “land-sharking” – the practice of coercing landowners to sell their land and then flipping it for huge profits – is no longer as lucrative as it once was, because land prices have been flat for years.
但日本的长期经济不景使那些依靠暴力来维持的黑帮传统行业——赌博，色情和高利贷——收入逐渐减少。类似“逼迁”——就是迫使原地产所有人变卖自己的土地，然后炒卖赚钱——这类行为已不像从前那样赚钱，因为地产价格已经死气沉沉好多年了。