[−]
  • Search Digit-count Valid ISBN Invalid ISBN Valid Barcode Invalid Barcode
Share Organize Explore

has ALL you need!

A community for book lovers to create their own bookshelves, share and explore books.

Sign Up for FREE!

Yakuza

Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition

By Alec Dubro, David E. Kaplan

Paperback | 9780520215627

Book Description

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 WContinue

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. 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 Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years.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.

Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 422 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0520215621
  • ISBN-13: 9780520215627
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Pub date: Feb 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 23 cm x 15 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
Improve data of this book

Prices Change currency & sellers

ISBN Edition List Sale Seller
9780520215627 Paperback $22.95 $15.61 Amazon US
£13.50 -- Amazon UK
$27.91 $17.58 Amazon CA
¥2718.00 ¥2609.00 Amazon JP
€17.34 €17.34 Amazon FR
-- €16.4 Amazon DE
$21.95 $19.75 bn.com
Other editions