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'
- ISBN10 1568365047
- ISBN13 9781568365046
- Publish Date 22 February 2013 (first published 1 July 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Kodansha America, Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 264
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781568365046