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Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld

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Availability:In StockContributor:David E. Kaplan, Alec DubroPublish date:2012-10-22Pages:440
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520274907ISBN-10:520274903UPC:9780520274907Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Organized Crime, AsiaBook Topic:JapanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SC5MKYECBQ

Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520274907ISBN-10:520274903UPC:9780520274907Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Organized Crime, AsiaBook Topic:JapanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SC5MKYECBQ
David E. Kaplan is an investigative journalist based in Washington. He is former director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and served as chief investigative correspondent for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of Fires of the Dragon and coauthor of The Cult at the End of the World, on the doomsday sect that released nerve gas in the Tokyo subway. Alec...
Publisher: University of California Press

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25th Anniversary Edition

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