Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition
by 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. 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 Originally published in 1986, it was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five show more years.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 or 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. show lessTags
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This book is amazing. The corruption in Japan is unfathomable! My view of Japan has changed after having read this book. Not finished yet, but the extent of the influence of the Yakuza is chillingly horrific! How can one of the world's leading economic powerhouses allow itself to be intimidated by criminals?
Good intro to the Japanese yakuza underworld and its connection to conservative politicians and the CIA.
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> [Japon]. YAKUZA, LA MAFIA JAPONAISE, par Alec DUBRO et David KAPLAN, Traduit de l’américain par Françoise Deschodt et Carine Chichereau - Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée - 620 pages / 11,70 € / ISBN : 978-2-87730-572-3. — Reconvertis dans les affaires, ayant pignon sur rue, les yakuzas forment l'une des plus importantes organisations criminelles du monde. Ce livre, somme de vingt années de difficiles investigations, suit l’évolution de cette mafia japonaise qui a largement débordé ses frontières pour devenir un cartel aux ramifications mondiales.
—Catalogue Picquier Poche 2019
> [Japon]. YAKUZA, LA MAFIA JAPONAISE, par Alec DUBRO et David KAPLAN, Traduit de l’américain par Françoise Deschodt et Carine Chichereau - Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée - 620 pages / 11,70 € / ISBN : 978-2-87730-572-3. — Reconvertis dans les affaires, ayant pignon sur rue, les yakuzas forment l'une des plus importantes organisations criminelles du monde. Ce livre, somme de vingt années de difficiles investigations, suit l’évolution de cette mafia japonaise qui a largement débordé ses frontières pour devenir un cartel aux ramifications mondiales.
—Catalogue Picquier Poche 2019
Apr 20, 2024French
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- Japan
- First words
- One might call Goro Fujita the bard of the yakuza and he would not object.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)By the time they succeed, the gangs will have come to be regarded as simply part of the cost of doing business, as they are in Japan.
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- Dower, John W.
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- 364.1060952 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Organized Crime Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography
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- HV6453 .J33 .Y355 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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