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Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld

by Alec Dubro, David E. Kaplan

Pages: 400

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

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Preface to the New Edition

Prologue: Enter the Yakuza

Part I: Early History

Chapter One: The Honorable Outlaws

Part II: The Kodama Years

Chapter Two: Occupied Japan

Chapter Three: Nexus on the Right

Chapter Four: The Black Mist

Part III: The Modern Yakuza

Chapter Five: The Syndicates

Chapter Six: Corruption, Japanese-Style

Chapter Seven: The Keizai Yakuza

Chapter Eight: The Collapsing Bubble

Part IV: The Move Abroad

Chapter Nine: Meth, Money, and the Sex Trade

Chapter Ten: Old Markets and New

Chapter Eleven: Across the Pacific

Chapter Twelve: To America

Epilogue: A New Yakuza

A Note on Research

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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