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　　A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how

democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan.--Mario

Puzo

In this unorthodox chronicle of the rise of Japan, Inc., Robert

Whiting, author of You Gotta Have Wa, gives us a fresh perspective

on the economic miracle and near disaster that is modern

Japan.

Through the eyes of Nick Zappetti, a former GI, former black

marketer, failed professional wrestler, bungling diamond thief who

turned himself into "the Mafia boss of Tokyo and the king of

Rappongi," we meet the players and the losers in the high-stakes

game of postwar finance, politics, and criminal corruption in which

he thrived. Here's the story of the Imperial Hotel diamond robbers,

who attempted (and may have accomplished) the biggest heist in

Tokyo's history. Here is Rikidozan, the professional wrestler who

almost single-handedly revived Japanese pride, but whose own

ethnicity had to be kept secret. And here is the story of the

intimate relationships shared by Japan's ruling party, its

financial combines, its ruthless criminal gangs, the CIA, American

Big Business, and perhaps at least one presidential relative. Here

is the underside of postwar Japan, which is only now coming to

light.

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　　Excellent--. An irreverent, subversive and entertaining yarn

that enlightens readers about important aspects of Japanese history

and the shadowy world of power.--The Japan Times

　　"[Tokyo Underworld] is an entertaining book that is far

more than an entertainment."--Washington City Paper --

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书籍介绍

Whiting's probe of Japan's gangsters, corrupt entrepreneurs and political fixers reads like a James Bond thriller yet manages intelligently to illuminate the seamy underside of Japan's postwar economic boom. At the heart of his colorful tale is swaggering, thickset Nick Zappetti, a tough from East Harlem's Italian ghetto who arrived in U.S.-occupied Japan in 1945 as a 22-year-old marine sergeant. Zappetti stayed on to become a black marketer, branched out into illegal banking, pimping and armed robbery, then launched a Tokyo pizza restaurant, Nicola's, which became a favorite night spot for mobsters, diplomats and movie stars. After decades of booze, debauchery, multiple marriages, gangland ties and lawsuits, he lost control of his restaurant-chain empire to his former Japanese partner and to his Japanese fourth wife. Zappetti died in 1992, nearly bankrupt and consumed with hatred for the Japanese, whom he saw as arrogant swindlers intent on taking over America. Whiting (You Gotta Have Wa), an American journalist who lives in Tokyo and writes a weekly column for the Japanese press, sets Zappetti's rise and fall against juggernaut Japan's financial ascendancy over the U.S. and its current slide into economic malaise. In this critical, revealing look at a half century of U.S.-Japan relations, he blames General MacArthur's occupational government?with its massive embezzlement, theft, fraud and black marketing?for creating the environment that allowed Japan's organized crime syndicates to join forces with its ruling political and business elite, aided by strategic financial aid from the CIA.