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Sto caricando le informazioni... Tokyo underworld (edizione 2012)di Robert Whiting
Informazioni sull'operaTokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan di Robert Whiting
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Interesting history of Japan post WWII. The enemy swoops on, drops tons of money, massive corruption ensues…mostly centers on an American Italian New York mafia guy who booms and busts and booms and bust working the corruption. An exceptionally well informed, impassioned and detailed study of Japan's post war development, the rise of the yakuza, and the problems of being a gaijin in an alien culture, all told through the lens of the life story of an American gangster cum entrepreneur. A brilliant book, remarkably well organised, penetrating, sad, nostalgic, and witty. A interesting piece of journalistic expose & biography, Whiting uses the life of Nick Zappetti (former American occupation soldier, small time hood, & pizzeria proprieator) as a through-line in which to tell the large story of institutionalized corruption that has taken root in Japan since the end of WW2. It's a fast, interesting read that while presenting no overall thesis concerning organized crime or institutional corruption in Japan is quite informative on these thru the illustration of several running themes. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945. In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting but ever-profitable alliances with warring Japanese and Korean gangsters. At the center of this world was Nick Zappetti, an ex-marine from New York City who arrived in Tokyo in 1945, and whose restaurant soon became the rage throughout the city and the chief watering hole for celebrities, diplomats, sports figures, and mobsters. Tokyo Underworld chronicles the half-century rise and fall of the fortunes of Zappetti and his comrades, drawing parallels to the great shift of wealth from America to Japan in the late 1980s and the changes in Japanese society and U.S.-Japan relations that resulted. In doing so, Whiting exposes Japan's extraordinary "underground empire": a web of powerful alliances among crime bosses, corporate chairmen, leading politicians, and public figures. It is an amazing story told with a galvanizing blend of history and reportage. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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