![]() ![]() Kaplan (Author), Alec Dubro (Author) 136 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 29.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 378.02 2 Used from 378.02 Paperback 44.00 4 Used from 15.39 1 New from 44. ![]() This updated, expanded, and thoroughly revised edition of Yakuza 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. Kaplan Yakuza: Japans Criminal Underworld Paperback Feb. ![]() The result is a searing indictment of corruption in the world's second-largest economy. Yakuza is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japans Mafia. Kaplan and Alec Dubro spent nearly two decades conducting hundreds of interviews with everyone from street-level hoodlums and police to Japan's most powerful godfathers. But in the West it has long served as the standard reference on Japanese organized crime, inspiring novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. Here is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most Westerners. 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. ![]()
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