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Author Kaplan, David E

Title Yakuza : Japan's criminal underworld / David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro
Edition 25th anniversary ed
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 400 pages)
Contents pt. 1. Early history -- pt. 2. The Kodama years -- pt. 3. The modern Yakuza -- pt. 4. The move abroad
Summary 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 Originally published in 1986, it was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. But in the west it has long served as the standard reference on Japanese organized crime
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Yakuza -- Japan -- History
Yakuza -- History
Organized crime -- Japan -- History
Crime -- Japan -- History
Gangs -- Japan -- History
Crime.
Gangs.
Organized crime.
Yakuza.
Japan.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Dubro, Alec.
ISBN 9780520953819
0520953819
9780520953819