Toppamono: Outlaw. Radical. Suspect. My Life in Japan's Underworld Tapa dura - 2005

US: Kotan, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Shot, stabbed, and beaten, Miyazaki Manabu somehow emerged intact from his first fifty years to put his astonishing life story down on paper. Born the son of a yakuza boss in 1945, he grew up in a household of gang members an d social misfits before his conversion to Marxism launched him into the vio lent world of 1960s student radicalism. After dropping out of university an d spending a brief sojourn in South America, he became a reporter on a fast -rising weekly magazine. Called back home to Kyoto to take over the family demolition business, he was plunged into a maelstrom of bankruptcy and debt , forcing him to raise funds however he could. Along the way, he became the chief suspect in one of Japan's most sensational criminal cases----still u nsolved----before getting caught up in the crazy years of Japan's bubble ec onomy, when land speculators tipped their favorite bar hostesses millions o f yen and Dom Perignon flowed like water. More than just one man's… Leer más