Important and timely… Yakuza will serve for years as the source document on Japanese organized crime."- San Jose Mercury News Let them simmer a while, then fold in the Ku Klux Klan and you'll have the yakuza…. "The book is laden with fascinating information, some of it heretofore unavailable in English."- Washington Post The authors miss none of the color and curious detail of the yakuza style, but at the same time go far beyond surface observations."- Far Eastern Economic Review "A superb study of Japan's underworld that is both entertaining and revealing. Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by far the most detailed and even-handed study of this important and neglected subject."-John W. Here is the backstage world of political influence and organized crime in the world's second largest economy. West Journal Of Japanese Studies"A fascinating study of how criminal enterprise can infect the very heart of modern capitalism. Reviews “Yakuza is well written, fascinating, has more relevant information in one place than any other source.” -Mark D.
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