Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, 25th Anniversary Edition

Name: Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, 25th Anniversary Edition
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ISBN: 9780520274907

ISBN-10: 0520274903

ISBN-13: 9780520274907

Edition: 2012

Authors: David E. Kaplan, Alec Dubro

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Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong--more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most Westerners.Yakuzais the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, it was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. But in the west it has long served as the standard reference on Japanese organized crime and has inspired novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 422
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Preface to the 2012 Edition


Prologue: Enter the Yakuza



Early History



The Honorable Outlaws



The Kodama Years



Occupied Japan



Nexus on the Right



The Black Mist



The Modern Yakuza



The Syndicates



Corruption, Japanese-Style



The Keizai Yakuza



The Collapsing Bubble



The Move Abroad



Meth, Money, and the Sex Trade



Old Markets and New



Across the Pacific



To America


Epilogue: A New Yakuza


A Note on Research


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index