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• catalog abstract "Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong{u2014}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. Here is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years.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, inspiring novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. David E. 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. The result is a searing indictment of corruption in the world's second-largest economy. 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.".
• catalog contributor b12772005.
• catalog contributor b12772006.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-386) and index.".
• catalog description "Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong{u2014}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. Here is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years.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, inspiring novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. David E. 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. The result is a searing indictment of corruption in the world's second-largest economy.".
• catalog description "Prologue: enter the yakuza -- Pt. I. Early history -- The honorable outlaws -- Pt. II. The Kodama years -- Occupied Japan -- Nexus on the right -- The black mist -- Pt. III. The modern yakuza -- The syndicates -- Corruption, Japanese-style -- The Keizai yakusa -- The collapsing Bubble -- Pt. IV. The move abroad -- Meth, money, and the sex trade -- Old markets and new -- Across the Pacific -- To America -- Epilogue: a new yakuza.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "xxii, 400 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0520215613 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0520215621 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "Japan".
• catalog subject "364.1/06/0952 21".
• catalog subject "Crime Japan History.".
• catalog subject "Gangs Japan History.".
• catalog subject "HV6453.J33 Y355 2003".
• catalog subject "Organized crime Japan History.".
• catalog subject "Yakuza History.".
• catalog subject "Yakuza Japan History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: enter the yakuza -- Pt. I. Early history -- The honorable outlaws -- Pt. II. The Kodama years -- Occupied Japan -- Nexus on the right -- The black mist -- Pt. III. The modern yakuza -- The syndicates -- Corruption, Japanese-style -- The Keizai yakusa -- The collapsing Bubble -- Pt. IV. The move abroad -- Meth, money, and the sex trade -- Old markets and new -- Across the Pacific -- To America -- Epilogue: a new yakuza.".
• catalog title "Yakuza : Japan's criminal underworld / David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".