I'm forced to take this article with a grain of salt after noticing they took quite a few liberties with explaining the subject. My first issue being with the fact that he takes an entire two paragraphs to basically say that no one knows if the Burning Keiretsu is real, and then goes on to make assumptions for the rest of the second part about what the Burning Keiretsu do and how they organize their business. He just literally wrote there's no source of information on them. Where is the author getting his facts from?
Without numbers and quantitative data, this means nothing. He glosses over this until the next section, where he begins to take one or two examples to show that Burning indeed does exist...except he's saying that all official sources have never put Burning down on paper. So how does one come across this data? How is this data verified? He said that he found it on "JASRAC". I looked around on JASRAC and couldn't find a thing. This isn't to say that the author is making this up, but if you discover this data you need to record it in case it suddenly becomes "lost", and if you're talking about a company that doesn't want to be known you better include date and time of retrieval as well as a cache stored somewhere. Saying "I found this at some undisclosed time in the past" is shoddy reporting. After I skipped to the end and found nothing resembling a bibliography or a list of sources, I stopped reading. He may have some valid points here and there about the general structure of the industry but with no sources I have no idea how much of this is accurate and to what degree. I'm just posting this as a disclaimer before people go all "OMG LIKE CORPORATE MONOPOLY" all over this topic.