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Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld

by Alec Dubro, David E. Kaplan. 400 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Alec Dubro, David E. Kaplan

Publisher:

   University of California Press

Place of Publication:

  Berkeley, CA  

Publication Year:

  2003
Subjects:   Yakuza--Japan--History, Yakuza--History, Organized Crime--Japan--History, Crime--Japan--History, Gangs--Japan--History
Table of contents
Acknowledgments vii
About the Authors xi
Preface to the New Edition xiii
Prologue: Enter the Yakuza xv
PART I: EARLY HISTORY
1 The Honorable Outlaws 3
PART II: THE KODAMA YEARS
2 Occupied Japan 31
3 Nexus on the Right 56
4 The Black Mist 83
PART III: THE MODERN YAKUZA
5 The Syndicates 111
6 Corruption, Japanese-Style 144
7 The Keizai Yakuza 175
8 The Collapsing Bubble 196
PART IV: THE MOVE ABROAD
9 Meth, Money, and the Sex Trade 223
10 Old Markets and New 251
11 Across the Pacific 277
12 To America 293
Epilogue: A New Yakuza 325
A Note on Research 335
Notes 339
Glossary 373
Bibliography 377
Index 387
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