Tag: Yakuza

The Japanese Mafia Yakuza, Law, and the State


Free Download Peter B. E. Hill, "The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State"
English | 2006 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0199291616 | PDF | 1,0 mb
The Japanese mafia – known collectively as yakuza – has had an extensive influence on Japanese society over the past fifty years. Based on extensive interviews with criminals, police officers, lawyers, journalists, and academics, this is the first academic analysis in English of Japan’s criminal syndicates.

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The Last Yakuza Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld [Audiobook]


Free Download The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld (Audiobook)
English | October 17, 2023 | ASIN: B0CKLR9SGV | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 36m | 687 MB
Author: Jake Adelstein | Narrator: Brian Nishii
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before.
Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute forceā€•the yakuza.

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