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Tokyo Underworld

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by Robert Whiting


  Gunther, John. Inside Asia. New York: Harper, 1938.

  Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Villard, 1993.

  ——. The Reckoning. New York: Morrow, 1986.

  Halloran, Richard. Japan – Images and Realities. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1970.

  Hartcher, Peter. The Ministry: How Japan’s Most Powerful Institution Endangers World Markets. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.

  Holstein, William J. The Japanese Power Game. New York: Scribners, 1990.

  Horsley, William, and Roger Buckley. Nippon New Superpower: Japan since 1945. London: BBC Books, 1990.

  Huddleston, Jack. Gaijin Kaisha. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1991.

  Ishihara, Shintaro. The Japan That Can Say No. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

  Johnson, Chalmers. Conspiracy at Matsukawa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

  ——. MITI and the Japanese Miracle. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982; Tokyo: Tuttle, 1986.

  Kahn, Herman. The Emerging Japanese Superstate. New York: Prentice Hall, 1969.

  Kaplan, David E., and Alec Dubro. Yakuza. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1986.

  Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. New York: Random House, 1987.

  Kodama, Yoshio. I Was Defeated. Tokyo: Robert Booth and Taro Fukuda, 1951.

  ——. Sugamo Diary. Tokyo: Taro Fukuda, 1960.

  Livingstone, Jon, Joe Moore, and Felicia Oldfather. Postwar Japan: 1945 to the Present. New York: Random House, 1973.

  Manchester, William. American Caesar. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.

  McGill, Peter. Tokyo. American Express Travel Guides. London: Mitchell Beazley, 1993.

  Mitchell, Richard H. The Korean Minority in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

  ——. Political Bribery in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.

  Morris, Ivan. Nationalism and the Right Wing in Japan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.

  National Police Agency. White Paper on Police. Published annually by the Government of Japan.

  Owen, John. Authority without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

  Prestowitz, Clyde V., Jr. Trading Places: How America Allowed Japan to Take the Lead. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

  Roberts, John. Mitsui: Three Centuries of Japanese Business. Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1973.

  Rome, Florence. The Tattooed Men. New York: Delacorte Press, 1975.

  Saga, Junichi. The Gambler’s Tale: A Life in Japan’s Underworld. Translated by John Bester. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1991.

  Sampson, Anthony. The Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed. New York: Viking, 1977.

  Schlesinger, Jacob M. Shadow Shoguns. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

  Sedensky, Eric C. Winning Pachinko: The Game of Japanese Pinball. Tokyo: Yen Books, 1991.

  Seidenstecker, Edward. Tokyo Rising: The Great City since the Great Earthquake. New York: Knopf, 1990.

  Singer, Kurt. Mirror, Jewel and Sword: A Study of Japanese Characteristics. New York: George Braziller, 1973.

  Smith, Patrick. Japan: A Reinterpretation. New York: Pantheon, 1997.

  Sweeny, Charles, W., Maj. Gen. War’s End. New York: Avon. 1997.

  Thayer, Nathaniel B. How the Conservatives Rule Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1969.

  Van Wolferen, Karel. The Enigma of Japanese Power. London: Macmillan, 1989.

  Vogel, Ezra F. Japan as Number One. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1980.

  Waley, Paul. Tokyo: City of Stories. Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1991.

  Wildes, Harry Emerson. Typhoon in Tokyo: The Occupation and Its Aftermath. New York: Macmillan, 1954.

  Woodall, Brian. Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics and Public Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

  Yanaga, Chitoshi. Big Business in Japanese Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.

  ——. SCAPINS. Tokyo General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, 1952.

  ——. Japan’s Subtle Apartheid: The Korean Minority Now. Pamphlet published by Research/Action Institute for Koreans in Japan. March 1990.

  BOOKS IN JAPANESE

  Abe, Joji. Hei No Naka No Korenai Menmen [Those Behind Walls Who Don’t Learn Lessons]. Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1986.

  Ando, Noboru. Yakuza To Koso (1) [Gangsters in Conflict]. Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1972.

  ——. Yakuza to Koso (2) [Gangsters in Conflict]. Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1972.

  ——. Yakuza to Koso (3) [Gangsters in Conflict]. Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1972.

  Arahara, Bokusui. Dai Uyuoku Shi [The Great History of the Right Wing]. Tokyo: Dai Nippon Kokumin To, 1966.

  Asahi Shimbun. Tokyo Kono 30 Nen [Tokyo in These 30 Years]. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Sha, 1984.

  Baba, ‘Giant’. Kosei Yutaka Riingu Gaitachi [Individualistic Guys of the Ring]. Tokyo: Baseball Magazine-sha, 1987.

  Berrigan, Daniel. Yakuza No Sekai: Nihon No Uchimaku [Yakuza Society: Behind the Japanese Curtain]. Tokyo: Kindai Shisosha, 1948.

  Baseball Magazine Co. Editorial Staff. Nihon Puro-Resu Zen-Shi [The Complete History of Pro Wrestling]. Tokyo: Besuboru Magajinsha, 1995.

  Fujita, Goro, ed. Koan Daiyoran [Great Directory of Public Security]. Tokyo: Kasakura Shuppan, 1983.

  ——. Koan Hyakunenshi [100 Year History of Public Security]. Tokyo: Koan Mondai Kenkyu Kyokai, 1979.

  ——. Ninkyo Daihyakka [The Great Encyclopaedia of Chivalry]. Tokyo: Ninkyo Kenkyu Kai, 1986.

  ——. Ninkyo Daihyakka Bessatsu [The Great Encyclopaedia of Chivalry; Supplement]. Tokyo: Ninkyo Kenkyu Kai, 1987.

  Honda, Yasuharu. Kizu: Hanagata Kei to Sono Jidai [Scar: Kei Hanagata and His Era]. Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1983.

  Ino Kenji. Kodama Yoshio no Kyozo to Jitsuzo [The Image and Reality of Yoshio Kodama]. Tokyo: Sokon Shuppan, 1970.

  ——. Yakuza to Nihonjin [Gangsters and the Japanese]. Tokyo: Mikasa Shoto, 1974.

  Inoki, Antonio. Tatta Hitori No Toso [One Man’s Battle]. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1990.

  Inose, Naoki. Shisha Tachi No Rokkuiido Jiken [The Lockheed Dead] Tokyo: Bunshun Bunko, 1987.

  ——. Yobo No Medeia [Ambitious Media]. Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1990.

  Ishihara, Shintaro, and Akio Morita. No To Ieru Nihonjin. Tokyo: Kobunsha, 1989. Translated as The Japan That Can Say No. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991, with Ishihara as the sole author.

  Itagaki, Shinsuke. Kono Jiyuto: Maboroshi No Chika Tekikoku. [This Liberal Party: The Phantom Underground Empire]. 2 vols. Tokyo: Banseisha, 1976.

  Kishida, Shu. Monogusa Seishin Bunseki [Lazy Psychoanalysis]. Tokyo: Seishisha, 1978.

  Keisatsu Cho Hen. Keisatsu Hakusho [Police White Paper]. Tokyo: Okura-sho Insatsu Kyoku. Published annually.

  Kodama, Yoshio. Akusei, Jusei, Ransei [Maladministration, Gunfire, Chaotic Times]. Tokyo: Kobundo, 1961.

  Kotchian, Carl. Rokkiido Urikomi Sakusen Tokyo No 70 Nichi-Kan [Lockheed Sales Mission: 70 Days in Tokyo]. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun. 1976.

  Kurita, Noboru. Rikidozan. 2 vols. Tokyo: Buronzu Sha. 1981.

  Misuta X. Puro-resu Gekido 40 Nen Shi No Yomikata [How to Read 40 Years of Exciting Pro Wrestling]. Tokyo: Pokettobukku sha, 1995.

  Muroboshi, Tetsuro. Jitsuryoku Nihon Oshoku Shi [A History of Japanese Corruption: An Authentic Account]. Tokyo: Chikuma Bunko, 1988.

  Onaruto. Yaocho [Fix]. Tokyo: Rokusaisha, 1996.

  Oshita Eiji. Eikyu No Rikidozan [Rikidozan Forever]. Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1991.

  Tachibana, Takashi. Kyoaku vs. Genron: Tanaka Rokkiido Kara Jiminto Bunretsu Made [Evil versus Free Speech: From Tanaka Lockheed to the Split of the LDP]. Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1993.

  ——. Rokuiido Saiban Bochoki [A Record of the Lockheed Trials]. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1981 (vol.1); 1982 (vol. 2); 1983 (vol. 3); 1985 (vol. 4). (Special paperback edition of all four volumes published in 1994 by Asahi Shimbunsha Bunkobun.)

  Takahashi Kunio. Tokyo Jidai [Tokyo Era]. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1984.

>   Takashina Shuji and Haga Toru. Sekai Toshi No Joken [Conditions of World Capitals]. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1992.

  Taoka, Kazuo. Yamaguchi Gumi Sandaime: Taoka Kazuo Jiden [The Autobiography of Kazuo Taoka, Third Generation Yamaguchi Gang]. 3 vols. Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1974.

  Tokyo-to. Minato-Kuyakusho. Minato-ku shi [A History of Minato Ward]. Minato Ward Office of Tokyo, 1960, 1979.

  Tokyo-to. Shibuya Kuyakusho. Shibuya-ku Shi [A History of Shibuya Ward]. Shibuya Ward Office of Tokyo, 1966.

  Ushijima Hidehiko. Mo Hitotsu No Showa Shi (1): Shinso Kairyu No Otoko: Rikidozan. [One More Showa History [1]: Rikidozan, Man of Deep Currents]. Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1978.

  Ushijima, Hidehiko. Rikidozan. Osumo, Puro-Resu Ura Shakai [Rikidozan: The Hidden World of Sumo and Professional Wrestling]. Tokyo: Daisan Shokan, 1995.

  ——. Uyoku Jiten [Right-Wing Dictionary]. Tokyo: Shakai Mondai Kenkyu-kai, 1970.

  Yamanouchi, Yukio. Sabishigariya Hittoman [The Lonely Hitman]. Tokyo: 1989.

  Za Desutoroiya (The Destroyer). Yottsu no ji no Hitori Goto [Tale of the Figure-Four Leglock]. Tokyo: Besuboru Magajin Sha, 1984.

  FILMS AND VIDEOS IN JAPANESE

  Rikidozan to Sono Jidai [Rikidozan and His Era]. 60 minutes. Beungei Shunju, 1995.

  Rikidozan. 61 minutes. Pony, Canyon, 1978.

  Chi To Okite [Blood and Law]. Shochiku Film Studios, 1966. Video: Nikkatsu Meisaku Eigakan. 1994.

  Chi No Sakazuki [Blood Toast]. Shochiku film Studios, 1969. Video: Nikkatsu Meisaku Eigakan. 1994.

  KEY MAGAZINE ARTICLES IN JAPANESE

  ‘Kodama No Kage De Odoru Aru Fuikusa’ [‘The Fixer Who Danced in Kodama’s Shadow’]. Asahi Journal, October 1, 1976, pp. 12–16, and October 8, 1976, pp. 14–19.

  ‘Kodama Yoshio To Wa Nanika?’ [‘What Is Yoshio Kodama?’]. Bungei Shunju, May 1976, pp. 94 – 130.

  DOCUMENTS

  Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. Ninety-Fourth Congress Second Session on Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Part 14 February 4 and 6 and May 4, 1976. Printed by the Committee on Foreign Relations. US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1976. 70-4670

  The New International Criminal and Asian Organized Crime Report. Prepared by the Permanent Subcommittee Investigation of the Committee on Governmental Affairs. US Senate. 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, December 1922. US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1993. 102-29.

  Index

  ACJ 29, 33, 160–1

  Adachi, James 123–5, 126

  Agriculture Ministry, Japanese 34

  aircraft industry x, 12, 103–5, 158, 159, 160, 169–70

  Aizawa, Seishisai 183

  Aizukotetsu 263

  Akasaka district 35, 49, 63, 67, 83, 85, 95, 99, 100, 101–3, 106, 112, 150, 151, 157, 158, 204, 208, 224

  Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan 66–7, 68, 101

  Aksenoff, Eugene 184, 201, 251

  Alexander, Corky 94, 116

  All Nippon Airways (ANA) 168, 169, 170, 177, 179, 180, 200, 235

  All Nippon Airways Hotel 200, 235

  All-Temperature Cheer 197

  Almond Coffee Shop 181

  Ameko 15, 117

  American Chamber of Commerce 61, 112–13, 119

  American Club 34, 61, 62, 63, 197, 214

  American Council 29

  American Express 54–5, 213

  American Museum of Natural History 260

  Amnesty International 51

  Ando, Akira 8–9

  Ando, Noboru 121, 148

  anti-Communist activities 10, 31, 32, 37, 72, 73, 77, 120

  Ark Hills 200, 265

  Army, US 7, 9, 12, 17, 62, 164

  Criminal Investigation Division of 37–8

  see also GIs in Japan

  Asahi Television 200

  Asakusa 9, 83

  Asian Wall Street Journal 224

  Asset Management International Financial Settlement (AMIFS) 217

  Associated Press (AP) 8, 93

  Atsugi 112, 143, 145

  audio watches 230

  Austin, Killer 85

  automobile pollution 100

  bai-bai-keiyaku (sales contract) 150, 154

  bakuto 2, 8, 9, 34, 70, 191

  Bank of America 17, 29

  Bank of Japan 12, 136, 194, 245, 254

  Bank of Texas 18

  baseball 41–2, 69, 90, 156, 161, 235, 236

  Basic Instinct (film) 254

  Beverly Hills Cop II (film) 258

  bicycle racing 156

  Black Dragon Society 71

  black magazines 107–8

  black market x, 1–30, 35, 58, 73, 74, 110, 111, 113, 118, 169, 184, 195, 210, 220, 240, 251

  establishment of 1–3, 4–5

  exploitative nature of 8

  GIs and 5–8, 13–14

  Lansco operation in 13, 17–22, 36–8

  size of 23

  Zappetti’s early dealings in 13, 14, 15, 16–18

  Black Ships ix

  Blakemore, Frances Baker 34, 260

  Blakemore, Thomas 25–6, 33–4, 108, 120, 126–30, 152, 195, 259–60

  background of 25

  death of 259–60

  experimental farming project of 260

  Imperial decoration received by 260

  law practice of 33, 195, 260

  Occupation as viewed by 25–6

  wealth of 33, 108, 195

  Yozawa River Project of 126–30

  Blassie, Freddie 74

  Blood Toast (film) 121–2

  Bob (GHQ associate of Zappetti’s) 16

  ‘Bob Hope Golf Club’ scam 213–14, 210

  Boborov, Vladimir 37–8

  booking agents 106

  boryokudan 70, 262

  boxing 156

  Boxing Magazine 90

  bribery, Japanese legal definition of 173

  bugyo 148

  Bungei Shunju 233, 234

  Bush, George 217, 239

  Bush, Prescott 217–18

  Bushell, Raymond 51, 131

  bushido ethic 3

  business entertaining 102, 156, 244

  Caesar’s Palace 157

  Calhoun, Haystack 68

  Cali cartel 191

  California 22, 28, 163, 169–70, 175, 206, 210–11, 233, 250, 258

  Capone, Al 34

  Caravansary restaurant 106–7, 261

  Cargill 60

  Carnera, Primo 43

  casinos 34–6

  caste system 4–5

  cellular phones 198, 204, 224

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) x, 32, 35, 37, 49, 72, 73, 95, 97–8, 105, 156, 157–8, 172–3, 174, 175, 177

  LDP funded by 72, 74, 98, 156

  Chanté bordello 158, 159

  Chase Manhattan Bank 29, 33, 216

  ‘cherry blossom gang’ 114

  China, People’s Republic of 27, 31, 35, 71, 87

  Chi to Okite (Blood and Law) (film) 149

  Church, Frank 173

  Church Committee 173, 175, 178

  Civil Code, Japanese 23, 33

  civil court system, Japanese 146–7

  Club 88 80–1

  Club Mandarin 35, 36, 38

  Club Riki 75

  Coca-Cola 120, 213

  cocaine 113, 191, 194

  Colt 60

  Columbia Pictures 233

  ‘comfort girls’ 7

  Commerce Department, US 22

  communism, Communists 10, 22, 27, 29, 31, 32, 37, 63, 72, 73, 74, 77, 91, 93, 98, 120

  con artists x, 184, 219

  ‘confusion’ 110, 123, 199, 254

  Congress, US 170, 182, 191, 262 see also House of Representatives, US; Senate, US

  construction boom in Tokyo 99

  construction industry 3, 5, 8–9, 72, 90, 99, 106, 156, 171, 172, 198–200, 256–7, 265

  contracts, Japanese vs American views of 151–
2

  Copacabana nightclub 102–3, 104, 106, 131, 158, 160, 178

  Coppola, ‘Trigger’ Mike 13

  corporate ‘security’ racketeer (sokaiya) 68, 107–8, 205–6, 254, 257–9

  corporations, foreign, in Japan 60–1

  ‘Crazy Emi’ (fur lover) 116–17

  Crazy Horse club 101

  CREEP 177

  Crime Prevention Bureau, Japanese 11

  crime rate 36

  Criminal Code, Japanese 52, 190

  criminal justice system, Japanese 50, 51, 146–7

  Cupid bar 166–7

  currency exchange laws 18, 74, 125, 173, 218, 254

  currency exchange rates 18, 173, 177

  Customs Service, US 258

  daibutsu bensai (property law) 146, 150, 187

  Daiei Film Studios 75

  Daiei Motion Picture Company 127

  Dai-Ichi Hotel 15

  Daimyo bottlers 120

  Dai-Nippon Kogyo 96

  Daiwa securities 216

  dango 199–200, 257

  Danny’s Inn 158

  Dark Society see Yami Shakai

  Defense Department, US 27, 159

  democracy ix, 4–5, 9, 12, 24, 27, 88, 170, 181, 183, 253

  ‘Dewi’ (Naoko Nemoto) 103

  Diet, Japanese 10, 28, 105, 157, 174, 177, 179, 180–1, 219, 233, 253

  Dillon, Read 27

  dollar, US 8, 17–18, 21, 32, 37, 58, 74, 113, 125, 153, 177, 187, 193, 195, 200

  Domino’s Pizza 145, 236, 246, 266

  Dow Chemical 33

  Draper, William H. 27

  Drug Enforcement Agency, US 190–1

  drug trade 189–92, 195, 209, 261

  Dulles, John Foster 33, 73

  Dunston, Ray 21, 38

  Du Pont 60

  ‘Eastern Establishment Nexus’ 175

  East Harlem 13, 87, 132, 150

  economy, Japanese ix, x, 4, 5, 9, 20, 27, 33, 65, 70–2, 83, 87, 99–130, 137, 153, 191, 193–200, 204, 244–5, 246, 255–6

  beginnings of recovery of 32–3

  foreign-owned corporations and 60–1

  1960s boom in 100

  1970s growth of 181

  1980s global expansion of 193–5

  1990s bust in 244–6, 255–6

  Occupation and 23–30

  protectionism and 110, 119–24, 196–7, 198

  transfer of wealth to 194

  underworld growth fostered by boom in 82–3, 100–4

  education 194

  8th Army, US 16

  Procurement Office 8

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. 75–6

  Embassy, US 25, 32, 76, 188, 195

 

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