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. "Yakuza" is 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it could not be published there for five years.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 tells the
full story of Japan's remarkable crime syndicates, from their
feudal start as bands of medieval outlaws to their emergence as
billion-dollar investors in real estate, big business, art, and
more.
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