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Japanese gangsters - the yakuza - make up the biggest, richest, and most secretive organized crime syndicates in the world. The combined yakuza is ten times larger than the American Mafia, with profits that would rival any Fortune 500 company. Beyond their enormous wealth and political influence, the modern yakuza are inheritors of a strict four-hundred-year-old code of conduct that, above all else, bars outsiders from their ranks. In Yakuza Diary, Christopher Seymour. Infiltrates yakuza society, presenting in vivid and often hilarious detail outrageous characters from a world that until now…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1996Atlantic Monthly Press · 212 pages · 9780871136046
Organized crimeGangsYakuzaCrimeHistoryCrime, japan
