Introduction
1: Mafias and the State
2: Yakuza Evolution
3: The Modern Yakuza - Structure and Organization
4: Shinogi - Sources of Income
5: The Botaiho
6: Heisei Yakuza - Burst Bubble and Botaiho
7: Yakuza, Law, and the State
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index
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insight into the structures and workings of this mysterious
organisation ... The book is as fascinating as it is
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Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association
`In this superb book Peter Hill challenges prevailing
interpretations of the yakuza and in doing so explores the
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while alerting readers to the pitfalls of various data. In looking
under this rock, he tells a compelling story about Japan's
underworld, showing us how it is far more significant, and rapidly
changing, than is
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anecdotes leavens this complex and revisionist interpretation of
the relationship between the yakuza, law and the state.'
Japan Times
`The Japanese Mafia is an exceptional piece of scholarship in an
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Journal of Japanese Studies
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