Confessions of a Yakuza : a life in Japan's underworld

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Confessions of a Yakuza : a life in Japan's underworld

Junichi Saga ; translated by John Bester ; illustrated by Susumu Saga

Kodansha International, 1995, c1991

  • : pbk

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Asakusa bakuto ichidai

浅草博徒一代 : 英文版

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Translation of: 浅草博徒一代

Previously published in English as: The Gambler's tale

"First edition, 1991. First paperback edition, 1995"--T.p. verso

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Read the tale of murder and unexpected compassion which influenced Bob Dylan's 2001 song Floater', this is a true-life saga of one of the last traditional gang bosses in Japan. This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a 'good' life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the'

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