Download or read book The Japanese Mafia written by Peter B. E. Hill and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Japanese mafia - known collectively as yakuza - has had a considerable influence on Japanese society over the past fifty years. Based on extensive Japanese language source material and interviews with criminals, police officers, lawyers, journalists, and scholars, this is the first English language academic monograph to analyse Japan's criminal syndicates."--BOOK JACKET.