Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld de David E. Kaplan/ Alec Dubro - 2003

University of California Press, 2003-02-01. Paperback. Good.

U.S.A.: University of California Press, 2003 soft cover in near fine condition,expanded edition. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

Berkeley. 2003. University Of California Press. Reprint of an Expanded Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520215621. 422 pages. paperback. . keywords: Japan Crime. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. Here is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. But in the West it has long served as the standard reference on Japanese organized crime, inspiring novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro spent nearly two decades conducting hundreds of interviews with everyone from street-level hoodlums and police to Japan's most… Leer más

Paperback. Very Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of California Press, 2003-02-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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