Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld

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University of California Press, 2003 - 400 pagine
"A fascinating study of how criminal enterprise can infect the very heart of modern capitalism. Here is the backstage world of political influence and organized crime in the world's second largest economy... by far the most detailed and even-handed study of this important and neglected subject."—John W. Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Reviews of original edition:

"A superb study of Japan's underworld that is both entertaining and revealing. The authors miss none of the color and curious detail of the yakuza style, but at the same time go far beyond surface observations."—Far Eastern Economic Review

"The book is laden with fascinating information, some of it heretofore unavailable in English."—Washington Post

"Blend the Mafia with the Masons. Let them simmer a while, then fold in the Ku Klux Klan and you'll have the yakuza…. Important and timely…Yakuza will serve for years as the source document on Japanese organized crime."—San Jose Mercury News

"State-of-the-art investigative reporting…must reading for those who consider themselves already highly conversant with yakuza activities…disturbing."—Journal of Asian Studies
 

Sommario

The Honorable Outlaws
7
Occupied Japan
35
Nexus on the Right
60
The Black Mist
87
The Syndicates
115
Corruption JapaneseStyle
148
The Keizai Yakuza
179
The Collapsing Bubble
200
Across the Pacific
281
To America
297
A New Yakuza
329
A Note on Research
339
Notes
343
Glossary
377
Bibliography
381
Index
391

Meth Money and the Sex Trade
227
Old Markets and New
255

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