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Barcode30293102404816
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call No364.106 Rank
TitleYakuza : a 400-year history of the Japanese underworld / Andrew Rankin.
AuthorRankin, Andrew, 1967- author.
CollectionNF
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781541607675 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1541607678 (hardcover)
Personal Name Rankin, Andrew, 1967- author.
Title Statement Yakuza : a 400-year history of the Japanese underworld / Andrew Rankin.
Edition Statement First Edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2026.
Physical Description 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-370) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Samurai gangsters -- The families -- Kyoto underworld -- School for pimps --The bad ones -- The national essence -- Yakuza blackshirts -- Rising from the rubble -- Homeland defense -- The syndicates -- The extreme way -- Civil war -- Burst bubble -- Death sentence.
Summary, Etc. A history of the Japan's gangster groups, known collectively as the Yakuza from the emergence out of seventeenth-century samurai gang culture to the present day.
Summary, Etc. Japan's gangster groups, known collectively as the yakuza, are among the oldest underworld societies in the world. With military-style organization and a code of absolute obedience, they have run Japan's black markets for centuries. They have remained strikingly conspicuous in Japanese society and as a cultural force beyond Japan, with movies and video games celebrating their exploits globally. Andrew Rankin offers the first comprehensive history of the yakuza, from their emergence out of seventeenth-century samurai gang culture to the present day. Though their activities have always encompassed illegal gambling and sex trafficking, the yakuza have also aggressively maintained business interests in private security, the construction industry, the entertainment industry, and debt collection. Yakuza bosses acquired a degree of legitimacy by styling themselves as peacekeepers maintaining order at society's bottom end. Yet that legitimacy has come into doubt in recent years as Japan's contracting economy has pushed the yakuza into increasingly predatory criminal activities. Featuring a lively cast of extortionists, smugglers, hit men, and corporate crime lords, Yakuza is a fascinating tour of Japan's sprawling mob syndicates and the cultural traditions with which they are so deeply intertwined.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Yakuza History. Japan
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Organized crime History. Japan
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works.

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