Strict regulations of the world’s leading game company – Prohibit working for the Mafia

Nintendo submitted 25 pages of mostly blacked out paper to distribution agreement and Nintendo Switch content license. However, the Nintendo Switch manufacturer did not obscure one notable detail: it is a regulation that prohibits Japanese developers and publishers from working with Yakuza (Yakuza is often used to refer to mafia or traditional criminal organizations in Japan.)
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The agreement requires Nintendo’s partners to ensure that the company and its employees are not “Anti-Social Forces” and that they do not provide financial support or incentives of any kind. other for the above forces. Nintendo defined the “Anti-Social Force” by repeating the term “Boryokudan” over and over again. This is a term originally used by the Japanese police and media for members of criminal organizations.

In the agreement, Nintendo gives many definitions such as: “‘Anti-Social Force’ is an organized crime group (‘Boryokudan’), a member of Boryokudan (Boryokudanin), a sub-member of Boryokudan ( Boryokudan jyunkoseiin), a corporation that is related to a Boryokudan (Boryokudan kanren gaisha)…
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The agreement also prohibits developers and publishers from making “violent claims”, making “threatening or violent acts in connection with transactions” and “spreading false rumors, fraud, or using use of force”.​