{"product_id":"yakuza-japans-criminal-underworld-9780520274907","title":"Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David E. Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Organized Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating study of how criminal enterprise can infect the very heart of modern capitalism. Here is the backstage world of political influence and organized crime in the world's second largest economy... by far the most detailed and even-handed study of this important and neglected subject.\"--John W. Dower, author of \u003ci\u003eEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews of original edition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A superb study of Japan's underworld that is both entertaining and revealing. The authors miss none of the color and curious detail of the yakuza style, but at the same time go far beyond surface observations.\"--\u003ci\u003eFar Eastern Economic Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is laden with fascinating information, some of it heretofore unavailable in English.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Blend the Mafia with the Masons. Let them simmer a while, then fold in the Ku Klux Klan and you'll have the yakuza.... Important and timely...\u003ci\u003eYakuza \u003c\/i\u003ewill serve for years as the source document on Japanese organized crime.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Jose Mercury News \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"State-of-the-art investigative reporting...must reading for those who consider themselves already highly conversant with yakuza activities...disturbing.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Asian Studies \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45298551357591,"sku":"9780520274907","price":2590.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520274907.webp?v=1768573704","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/yakuza-japans-criminal-underworld-9780520274907","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}