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The Japanese mafia: Yakuza, law, and the state

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The Japanese mafia - known collectively as yakuza - has had an extensive influence on Japanese society over the past fifty years. Based on extensive interviews with criminals, police officers, lawyers, journalists, and academics, this is the first academic analysis in English of Japan's criminal syndicates.

Peter Hill argues that the essential characteristic of Japan's criminal syndicates is their provision of protection to consumers in Japan's under- and upper-worlds. In this respect they are analogous to the Sicilian Mafia, and the mafias of Russia, Hong Kong and the United States. Although the yakuza's protective mafia role has existed at least since the end of the Second World War, and arguably longer, their sources of income have not remained constant. The yakuza have undergone considerable change in their business activities over the last half-century. The two key factors driving this evolution have been the changes in the legal, and law-enforcement environment within which these groups must operate, and the economic opportunities available to them. This first factor demonstrates that the complex and ambiguous relationship between the yakuza and the state has always been more than purely symbiotic. With the introduction of the boryokudan (yakuza) countermeasures law in 1992, the relationship between the yakuza and the state has become more unambiguously antagonistic. Assessing the impact of this law is, however, problematic; the contemporaneous bursting of Japan's economic bubble at the beginning of the 1990s also profoundly and adversely influenced yakuza sources of income. It is impossible to completely disentangle the effects of these two events.

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Ketersediaan

2024-4080

364.1 Hil j

Perpustakaan Diplomasi

Tersedia

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

364.1 Hil j

Penerbit

Oxford : Oxford University Press., 2003

Deskripsi Fisik

xi, 323 pages ; 24 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-19-925752-3

Klasifikasi

364.1

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Ed. 1

Subjek

Mafia
Yakuza

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Peter B. E. Hill

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