in the early 1980s, a countryside doctor in Japan met a chief of a yakuza gang and history was made...the first of two Yakuza books to be "accidentally" written; in that a writer accidentally meets a significant organized crime figure and then characterizes that life. (the other being the one about ...
Very interesting. Still .....kind of hard to read. You learn for example exactly how one thatched a roof or dyed cloth or arranged different hairstyles. Very detailed. There are chapters about all kinds of people - gangsters to fishermen to teachers to geisha. Such poverty!No health care. Life was h...
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