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David Kaplan: Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, 25th Anniversary Edition [2012] paperback ELEAR and a propulsive delight thatKnown for their striking full body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most Westerners. "Yakuza" is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, it was so controversial in Japan