Gamblers, fraudsters, dreamers & spies : the outsiders who shaped modern Japan

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Gamblers, fraudsters, dreamers & spies : the outsiders who shaped modern Japan

Robert Whiting

Tuttle, c2024

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Bibliography: p. [373]-381

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Description

現代日本に足跡を残した14人の個性豊かな外国人たちのドキュメンタリー。

Table of Contents

  • The Canon Agency―Spies and Drugs in Postwar Japan
  • Soldiers of Fortune―Greed and Duplicity in the Occupation and Its Aftermath
  • The Girard and Quackenbush Killings―The Era of Anti‐Americanism
  • Elint Agents―Electronic Spies in the Cold War
  • Saints―Acts of Kindness
  • Con Artists―Unscrupulous Visitors from Abroad
  • Danny’s Inn―New Opportunities
  • New Opportunists
  • The Sadaharu Oh Story―Paying a Price for “Otherness”
  • Hostesses―The Dark Underbelly of Tokyo Nightlife
  • Gaijin Yakuza―Among the Thugs
  • Gaijin CEOs―The Scandals of Olympus and Nissan
  • Valentine’s Way―Changing the Face of Japanese Baseball
  • The Bitcoin Crimes―and the North Korean Crime Syndicate
  • The Korean Taxi Barons―Sadao Aoki and MK Taxis
  • The Moonies―The Korean Unification Church and the Assassination of Shinzo Abe

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