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Confessions of a Yakuza

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By (author): John Bester Jun'ichi Saga

This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a good' life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, and ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo's liveliest' See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 221g
  • Dimensions: 114 x 284mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Feb 2013
  • Publisher: Kodansha America Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781568365046

About John BesterJun'ichi Saga

Dr. JUNICHI SAGA is a medical doctor with a general practice in Tsuchiura Ibaraki Prefecture on Lake Kasumigaura. He began taping his elderly patients' reminiscences about thirty years ago when he realized what a wealth of detail and information they contained. He has published numerous works of local history and ecology two of which are available in English: Memories of Wind and Waves and Memories of Silk and Straw. In his spare time he does ink painting.JOHN BESTER the translator is one of the foremost translators of Japanese fiction. In 1990 he was given the first Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature for his English version of a short-story collection by Yukio Mishima entitled Acts of Worship.

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