Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld by Junichi Saga

Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld

Junichi Saga with John Bester (Translator)

253 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

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This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a good life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he ...

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adventurous 72%
reflective 72%
informative 63%
dark 54%
emotional 36%
inspiring 18%
funny 9%
hopeful 9%
lighthearted 9%
relaxing 9%

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medium 60%
fast 30%
slow 10%

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