One of the world's largest banks, Sumitomo had been among the Bubble's most aggressive lenders. The bank had amassed over $ 10 billion in bad loans it was now anxious to clear, but apparently not all its customers agreed on the terms. Between February and May 1993, Sumitomo group companies were virtually under siege, with twenty-two incidents of shooting, blackmail, arson, and harassment. Molotov cocktails were thrown at the homes of the bank chairman, the bank vice president, the chairman of Sumitomo Real Estate, and the chairman of Sumitomo Corp. Two bank branches were shot at and a third firebombed. In September 1994, Sumitomo bank manager Kazufumi Hatanaka answered an early morning call at his condominium home. He was gunned down in his doorway, execution-style, with a bullet to the head.
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