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US: Kotan, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Shot, stabbed, and beaten, Miyazaki Manabu somehow emerged intact from his first fifty years to put his astonishing life story down on paper. Born the son of a yakuza boss in 1945, he grew up in a household of gang members an d social misfits before his conversion to Marxism launched him into the vio lent world of 1960s student radicalism. After dropping out of university an d spending a brief sojourn in South America, he became a reporter on a fast -rising weekly magazine. Called back home to Kyoto to take over the family demolition business, he was plunged into a maelstrom of bankruptcy and debt , forcing him to raise funds however he could. Along the way, he became the chief suspect in one of Japan's most sensational criminal cases----still u nsolved----before getting caught up in the crazy years of Japan's bubble ec onomy, when land speculators tipped their favorite bar hostesses millions o f yen and Dom Perignon flowed like water. More than just one man's…
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Toppamono: Outlaw. Radical. Suspect. My Life in Japan's Underworld Hardcover - 2005
by Miyazaki Manabu; Robert Whiting
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The year of my birth was an ignominious one etched in big black characters in the annals of our nation's long history.
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- Title Toppamono: Outlaw. Radical. Suspect. My Life in Japan's Underworld
- Author Miyazaki Manabu; Robert Whiting
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Hardcover with J
- Pages 460
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Kotan Publishing, Japan
- Date September 30, 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780970171627 / 0970171625
- Weight 1.47 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 8.88 x 6.36 x 1.57 in (22.56 x 16.15 x 3.99 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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