LinksYakuza Japanese
http://www.jingai.com/yakuza/
If you've ever watched Japanese gangster movies, or had the misfortune of running into a yakuza in person, you know they speak a seemingly incomprehensible form of Japanese. As outcasts and deviants from society, gangsters have their own language with a unique and specialized vocabulary suited to their organizational culture and occupation. Yakuza Japanese runs the gamut from honorifics to epithets, with major regional variations. This webpage is designed as a primer to gangster Japanese, as used in movies, focusing on the Kansai (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto) and Tokyo varieties.
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Japanese Mayor Shot Dead
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/17/world/main2695446.shtml
The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, a prominent anti-nuclear activist, was shot by a yakuza gangster on Tuesday, and news reports said he later died of his wounds.The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, a prominent anti-nuclear activist, was shot by a yakuza gangster on Tuesday, and news reports said he later died of his wounds.
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The "Underworld" Goes Underground: Yakuza in Japanese Politics
http://www.asiaquarterly.com/content/view/119/40
For much of their history, the yakuza have played an open and even flamboyant role in mainstream Japanese politics. Eiko Maruko explains why in recent years Japan's gangsters are finally being driven into the shadows, but nevertheless remain a behind-the-scenes presence in Japan's political arena.
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Japan's Dark Side
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/japan_retired/27301
Japan is considered by many to be the safest modernized industrial country in the world, and a bit of time living here will do much to support that case. For one thing, it is not rare to see children around the age of five or six walking alone or in small groups to and from school -- even after dark. Women and even young girls can walk on almost any street in almost any neighborhood at pretty much any hour and not have to fear being attacked.
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Books, DVDs, Magazine Articles etc.
Adelstein J. (2009). Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan. Pantheon
Hill, P.B.E. (2003). The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State. New York: Oxford University Press, USA
Kaplan, D.E., Dubro, A. (2003). Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press
Saga, J. (1995). Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld. Tokyo: Kodansha International
Seymour, C. (1996). Yakuza Diary: Doing Time in the Japanese Underworld. Atlantic Monthly Pr
Tendo, S. (2009). Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter. Tokyo: Kodansha International
Whiting, R. (2000). Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. London: Vintage
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