ISBN: 9780520953819

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.… Mehr…

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. Yakuza is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, it was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years.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 and has inspired novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition tells the full story or Japan's remarkable crime syndicates, from their feudal start as bands of medieval outlaws to their emergence as billion-dollar investors in real estate, big business, art, and more.; EPUB; Reference & Languages > Social services & welfare, criminology > Crime & criminology > Organized cri, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<

ISBN: 9780520953819

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.… Mehr…

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. Yakuza is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, it was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years.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 and has inspired novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition tells the full story or Japan's remarkable crime syndicates, from their feudal start as bands of medieval outlaws to their emergence as billion-dollar investors in real estate, big business, art, and more. University of California Press Cultural & Social Anthropology 9780520274907 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English Social Sciences, University of California Press<

2012, ISBN: 9780520953819

Japan's Criminal Underworld, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand … Mehr…

Japan's Criminal Underworld, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), 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. Yakuza is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, it 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 and has inspired novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition tells the full story or Japan's remarkable crime syndicates, from their feudal start as bands of medieval outlaws to their emergence as billion-dollar investors in real estate, big business, art, and more. [PU: University of California Press], Seiten: 440, University of California Press, 2012<

ISBN: 9780520953819

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*Yakuza* - Japan's Criminal Underworld / epub eBook für 30.49 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften Medien > Bücher nein eBook als epub eBooks > Fachthemen & Wissenschaft > Sozialwissenschaften, Mayo Clinic Press<

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