Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld -- Bookring
by John Bester, Junichi Saga | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 4770019483 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 4770019483 Global Overview for this book
Registered by totoroandmei of Fukuoka / 福岡市, Fukuoka-ken Japan on 3/24/2007
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
10 journalers for this copy...
Picked up on Tell and Sell Japan.
Will send out as a ring if there is enough interest.
Vikki - Japan, International
nut - UK, international
Kera - UK, International
Regiina - Portugal, International
Sudokugirl - Bosnia-Herzegovina, International
okyrhoe - Greece, International (place after sudoku)
Chaichan - US, US
Skinglist - US, US
passiontoread - US, International
xxprettyinmetal - Australia, International
totoroandmei - Japan
Will send out as a ring if there is enough interest.
Vikki - Japan, International
nut - UK, international
Kera - UK, International
Regiina - Portugal, International
Sudokugirl - Bosnia-Herzegovina, International
okyrhoe - Greece, International (place after sudoku)
Chaichan - US, US
Skinglist - US, US
passiontoread - US, International
xxprettyinmetal - Australia, International
totoroandmei - Japan
Supposedly I live in "The Yakuza Capital of Japan" so this was very interesting.
Journal Entry 3 by totoroandmei at Postal Release in Sent To The Next Bookcrosser, Bookray -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, April 1, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (4/7/2007 UTC) at Postal Release in Sent To The Next Bookcrosser, Bookray -- Controlled Releases
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Happy travels!
Happy travels!
Arrived yesterday - thanks!!
Very interesting.
Will send onto Nut when I have their address.
Will send onto Nut when I have their address.
Well, the Yakuza were certainly a lot more respectable than I thought!
Funny timing - this book arrived just a few days after I arrived back from a trip to Japan. We popped into Kabuki-cho, where I saw a number of people who looked like they could be Yakuza.
Have requested Kera's address.
Edit 17/10/07 - did anyone see this link?: Did Bob Dylan Lift Lines From Dr. Saga?
Funny timing - this book arrived just a few days after I arrived back from a trip to Japan. We popped into Kabuki-cho, where I saw a number of people who looked like they could be Yakuza.
Have requested Kera's address.
Edit 17/10/07 - did anyone see this link?: Did Bob Dylan Lift Lines From Dr. Saga?
Went into the post on Saturday.
Received in the post the other day but have only just had chance to get online and register that the book is with me, I will be starting this book next and can''t wait
and thanks nut for the little Japanese woman she is so cute!
and thanks nut for the little Japanese woman she is so cute!
I really enjoy reading books that give me an insight to the way things used to be in Japan - and this book was no exception, I really enjoyed the way the book was written and how the story progressed.
Thanks for sharing this book with me, am today sending off for regiina''s address and this book will be off in the post as soon as this is received :)
Thanks for sharing this book with me, am today sending off for regiina''s address and this book will be off in the post as soon as this is received :)
It arrived yesterday... it''s always a nice surprise. Thanks, Kera
The book will travel to sudokugirl tomorrow. Thanks for sharing this and sorry it tool soooo long to read it.
Journal Entry 12 by sudokugirl from Sarajevo, Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina on Saturday, November 24, 2007
Arrived safely this morning. Thanks for shipping, Regiina.
Journal Entry 13 by sudokugirl from Sarajevo, Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sunday, December 16, 2007
This was very interesting. Thank you for sharing, totoroandmei.
Sent to okyrhoe.
Sent to okyrhoe.
Arrived in my p.o.box today. I look forward to reading this.
(Kodansha, along with Charles Tuttle, is one of the publishing firms whose books I am always looking for. They have very good translations in English of Japanese books, and it is nice to see that Kodansha is now bringing out 'unorthodox' titles such as this one.)
(Kodansha, along with Charles Tuttle, is one of the publishing firms whose books I am always looking for. They have very good translations in English of Japanese books, and it is nice to see that Kodansha is now bringing out 'unorthodox' titles such as this one.)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book!
There is a certain 'naturalness' in the account of the dying man, and also in the narrative style of the author who is at once transcribing and re-telling the story. The author maintains a distance, and allows the subject of his book to tell his own story the way he wants to say it.
There are times when one wonders why a certain detail is worth mentioning, but every little item weaves its way into the whole picture eventually. The good times, the proud times, the painful times, the cruel times, they all come together into a unique portrait of an age and a man aware that his familiar world is going going gone.
There is a certain 'naturalness' in the account of the dying man, and also in the narrative style of the author who is at once transcribing and re-telling the story. The author maintains a distance, and allows the subject of his book to tell his own story the way he wants to say it.
There are times when one wonders why a certain detail is worth mentioning, but every little item weaves its way into the whole picture eventually. The good times, the proud times, the painful times, the cruel times, they all come together into a unique portrait of an age and a man aware that his familiar world is going going gone.
The book arrived today. Thank you, Okyrhoe, for the beautiful postcards.
Perfect timing to get a book with a picture of a man walking in Japan with an umbrella as it snows. Today I spent the morning walking around a Japanese garden (in Brooklyn with umbrella) while it snowed.
Perfect timing to get a book with a picture of a man walking in Japan with an umbrella as it snows. Today I spent the morning walking around a Japanese garden (in Brooklyn with umbrella) while it snowed.
The book brought back a lot of memories of run-ins with yakuza in different parts of Kyushu. I wish I had read it while I was still living in a neighborhood full of yakuza bosses.
The book is so well-crafted, it makes me wonder if the story is true as it claims to be, or a beautifully realized fiction. Thank you for another great book, Totoroandmei!
Contacting Skinglist to mail the book on this week.
The book is so well-crafted, it makes me wonder if the story is true as it claims to be, or a beautifully realized fiction. Thank you for another great book, Totoroandmei!
Contacting Skinglist to mail the book on this week.
Thanks chaichan/totoroandmei
always were some interesting yakuza moments near denden town in Osaka so it will be interesting to see what this book makes me think of. Thanks also for the postcard, chaichan -- I bet I know what garden you were walking through. Did you go to Sakura matsuri there last month?
always were some interesting yakuza moments near denden town in Osaka so it will be interesting to see what this book makes me think of. Thanks also for the postcard, chaichan -- I bet I know what garden you were walking through. Did you go to Sakura matsuri there last month?
I liked the story here, although the translator's writing style didn't capture the story as well as I thought I might have. I can feel the narrator's growing interest and "education", as it were, of this other world. Totoroandmei, thanks for sharing!
Have PM'ed passiontoread for an address and it will go as soon as I have it
Have PM'ed passiontoread for an address and it will go as soon as I have it
Journal Entry 20 by SKingList at bookring, Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Friday, August 1, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (8/2/2008 UTC) at bookring, Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Sendng off to the next participant
Sendng off to the next participant
Received safe and sound. Thanks for passing on. I have one book ahead of this one. I'm anxious to start reading it!
A very interesting book and I enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing. Contacting the next in line to get the book traveling again.
Mailed and on it's way home to Japan. Thanks!
Back home. Thanks everyone for participating. I am thinking of where this book will go next.
Journal Entry 25 by totoroandmei at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Monday, January 26, 2009
Released 15 yrs ago (1/26/2009 UTC) at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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Off to a new home.
Off to a new home.
