Yakuza diary

by Christopher Seymour

Japanese gangsters - the yakuza - make up the biggest, richest, and most secretive organized crime syndicates in the world. The combined yakuza is ten times larger than the American Mafia, with profits that would rival any Fortune 500 company. Beyond their enormous wealth and political influence, the modern yakuza are inheritors of a strict four-hundred-year-old code of conduct that, above all else, bars outsiders from their ranks. In Yakuza Diary, Christopher Seymour. Infiltrates yakuza society, presenting in vivid and often hilarious detail outrageous characters from a world that until now has remained modern Japan's dirty little secret. In the spring of 1993 Seymour talked his way out of the grasp of a suspicious immigration official and into a Japan on the verge of a countrywide yakuza gang war. As the bodies piled up, Seymour's desire to get involved in the action was fulfilled almost immediately, and he was soon cruising the. Streets and neighborhoods of Tokyo while a series of b