Tokyo underworld
In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan, New Yorker Nick Zappetti entered a world as strange as any he had ever known. In postwar Tokyo, however, he realised there were certain opportunities. With the assistance of the Mafia, he opened a pizza joint and became "the king of Roppongi and Mafia boss of Tokyo," and the intimate of some of Japan's most notorious underworld figures as well as many of its political and business leaders. Following Zappetti's rising and falling fortunes, Robert Whiting show us the sinister (and sometimes ridiculous) goings-on among Tokyo's criminal gangs as they developed from local racketeers and gamblers into lynchpins of international finance, politics and corruption
Print Book, English, 2012
Constable, London, 2012