![]() ![]() The result is a searing indictment of corruption in the world's second-largest economy. 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 ![]() Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years.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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