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1. • • Including a cast of memorable yakuza bosses - Coach, The Buddha, and more - this is a story about the rise and fall of a man, a country, and a dishonest but sometimes honorable way of life on the brink of being lost.
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     The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld

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   What is the last Yakuza a life in the Japanese underworld about?

   • In his second book, The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld, Adelstein chronicles this decline in power. In the second podcast episode of our series Underworlds with Mark Shaw, the GI-TOC’s director spoke with Adelstein to discuss the book.

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   What are some good books about the Yakuza?

   • His first book, Tokyo Vice, which was adapted into a television series in 2022, offers an in-depth look at the challenges of reporting on organized crime and maintaining complex relationships with Yakuza members. In his second book, The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld, Adelstein chronicles this decline in power.

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   Who were the yakuza in Japan?

   • But they were – and not sure about today, please answer that as well – deeply embedded in Japanese politics. JA: Part of the secret societies that overthrew the democratic Japanese government and helped create an imperial power, which waged war all over the world, were early Yakuza groups like Kokusui-kai.

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   Why were Yakuza so hard to study?

   • There were some Yakuza who also write books, very much skipping over the actual money-making part and focusing a lot on the nobility, the culture, the gang wars, and tales of glory and violence. But because the Yakuza were so omnipresent and so part of Japanese society and so darn organized, studying them was easy.

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   What percentage of the Yakuza are Japanese?

   • And one of the things also is that – I think this is pretty well-known by now – is that about 30 per cent of the Yakuza (and when we say Yakuza, we’re talking about 20 different crime families, hard-crime groups) are Korean Japanese.

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   Why did Saigo become a yakuza?

   • Born around 1960, Saigo was a large youth who “towered over his classmates like a bear among deer” at school. He “became a yakuza… because he didn’t like strait-laced Japanese society”.

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   Oct 2, 2024 · The Yakuza, Japan’s notorious organized crime syndicates, have long wielded considerable influence over local communities, politics and the criminal underworld. Though they occupy a unique place in Japanese society, their power is gradually waning.

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   Oct 17, 2023 · This story of one man's descent into the underworld is based on the life of a mob boss who slipped into gangsterhood early in life and served as Adelstein's bodyguard after he reported on a yakuza kingpin who broke the rules of both civilized society and the organization he led.

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   Jan 29, 2024 · The Last Yakuza is set in the Japanese underworld Credit: Greg Nicod. As well as telling Saigo’s story, Adelstein gives us a potted history of the yakuza, and how they survived by keeping...

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   The book begins in an easy-going conversational style covering Saigo’s background, his youth and upbringing, his parents’ chaotic relationship, his path to becoming a bosozoku motor-cycle gang member, and from there to becoming a yakuza.

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   Oct 17, 2023 · In this excerpt from Jake Adelstein's new book The Last Yakuza we find out what happens when a member of a Japanese organized crime family violates its code. The Last Yakuza: Life and...

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   Jan 19, 2016 · A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at the life and times of yakuza mob boss Makoto Saigo, aka Tsunami, by America’s foremost expert on Japanese organized crime. Makoto Saigo could have been...

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   Sep 7, 2023 · Written with the insight of an expert on Japanese organized crime and the compassion of a longtime friend, investigative journalist Jake Adelstein presents a sprawling biography of a yakuza,...