Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 3 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 7 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 5 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 2 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 1 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 6 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 4 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book Pachinko National Book Award Finalist written by Min Jin Lee and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*
Download or read book Made Men written by Antonio Nicaso and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a result of this movie and other popular portrayals, the image of mobsters as “men of honor and tradition” has become iconic throughout America. Yet the truth of the matter belies this more noble image. The Mafia is a ruthless organization. Their concept of family is a twisted one. But viewed through the lens of popular culture, it is often difficult to separate the fiction from the reality. Made Men demystifies this image by dismantling the code of honor that Mafiosi live by, including its attendant symbols, rituals, and the lifestyle that it demands. Since the end of World War II, the Mafia in Italy and America has undergone major changes, which are charted by the authors through the present day. Nicaso and Danesi also consider all kinds of related organizations, not only the Italian ones, including the Yakuza, the Triads, and the Russian Mafia. The authors look at organized criminal culture in general, attempting to explain why its symbols, rituals, and practices continue to draw people in, both as literal members, or as consumers of the pop culture that glorifies them. This story traces and decodes the origins, history and success of the mafia in the U.S., bringing a better, and more accurate understanding of this ultimately brutal, violent, and corrupting “family business.” It is a story that has rarely been told in this way, but which is believed, nonetheless, important to tell.
Download or read book Boss Wife 3 written by Mayu Sakurai and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mio, stuck with her father’s debt, finds herself at a dead-end when she runs into her first love, Yamato Kujo. She’s surprised when she learns that he’s become a lieutenant for the Yakuza, and he’s willing to take on her debt in exchange for her hand in marriage! After learning about Yamato’s past, the two of them grow closer as the dreaded day of the Family Meeting arrives. Yamato’s completely unexpected statements send violent tremors throughout the Hazakura-gumi, but how will Mio feel when she meets Yamato’s father for the very first time...?
Download or read book The Paths of Zatoichi written by Jonathan Wroot and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paths of Zatoichi charts the history and influence of the Japanese film and television franchise about Zatoichi the blind swordsman. The franchise is comprised of 29 films and 100 TV episodes (starring the famous Shintaro Katsu, who starred in 26 of the 29 feature films). They all follow the adventures of a blind masseur in medieval Japan, who wanders from village to village and often has to defend himself with his deadly sword skills. The first film was released in 1962 and the most recent in 2010. These dates demonstrate how the franchise can be used as a means of charting Japanese cinema history, via the shifts in production practices and audience preferences which affected the Zatoichi series and numerous other film and TV texts. Zatoichi signifies a huge area of Japanese film history which has largely been ignored in much existing scholarly research, and yet it can reveal much about the appeal of long-running characters, franchises, and their constant adaptation and influence within global popular culture.
Download or read book Woken Furies written by Richard K. Morgan and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Richard K. Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as Takeshi Kovacs, in one fatal moment, joins forces with a mysterious woman who may have the power to shatter Harlan’s World forever. Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled, hyperwired hair. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names, many powers, and one explosive history. In a world where the real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, the damsel in distress may be none other than the infamous Quellcrist Falconer, the vaporized symbol of a freedom now gone from Harlan’s World. Kovacs can deal with the madness of AI. He can do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild, search for a three-centuries-old missing weapons system, and live with a blood feud with the yakuza, and even with the betrayal of people he once trusted. But when his relationship with “the” Falconer brings him an enemy specially designed to destroy him, he knows it’s time to be afraid. After all, the guy sent to kill him is himself: but younger, stronger, and straight out of hell. Wild, provocative, and riveting, Woken Furies is a full-bore science fiction spectacular of the highest order—from one of the most original and spellbinding storytellers at work today.
Download or read book The Way of the Househusband Vol 3 written by Kousuke Oono and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal Dragon, once the fiercest member of the yakuza, is now a married man devoted to supporting his loving wife—as a househusband! But when the gangster-turned-homemaker needs to make some quick cash to buy her a present, he turns to the only skills he knows—and gets his first part-time job! The cozy yakuza comedy continues! -- VIZ Media
Download or read book The Devil of Nanking written by Mo Hayder and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exceedingly creepy . . . The diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II.” —Entertainment Weekly With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder’s The Devil of Nanking takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre. A young Englishwoman obsessed with an indecipherable past, Grey comes to Tokyo seeking a lost piece of film footage of the notorious 1937 Nanking Massacre, footage some say never existed. Only one man can help Grey. A survivor of the massacre, he is now a visiting professor at a university in Tokyo. But he will have nothing to do with her. So Grey accepts a job in an upmarket nightspot, where a certain gangster may be the key to gaining the professor’s trust. An old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, the gangster is rumored to rely on a mysterious elixir for his continued health. Taut, gritty, sexy, and harrowing, The Devil of Nanking is an incomparable literary thriller set in one of the world’s most fascinating cities—Tokyo—from an internationally bestselling author. “A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book.” —Harlan Coben
Download or read book Robin Batman 2021 3 written by Jeff Lemire and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To reconcile his trauma and move toward an optimistic future, Dick Grayson must first confront his tragic past. Unfortunately, that step includes a confrontation with an enraged Killer Croc, who is out for Grayson blood! This action-packed issue concludes the epic tale of a young man learning to live and love in a nightmarish world.
Download or read book Mafia Life written by Federico Varese and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see mafias as vast, powerful organizations, harvesting billions of dollars across the globe and wrapping their tentacles around everything from governance to finance. But is this the truth? Traveling from mafia initiation ceremonies in far-flung Russian cities to elite gambling clubs in downtown Macau, Federico Varese sets off in search of answers. Using wiretapped conversations, interviews, and previously unpublished police records, he builds up a picture of the real men and women caught up in mafia life, showing their loves and fears, ambitions and disappointments, as well as their crimes. Mafia Life takes us into the real world of organized crime, where henchmen worry about bad managers and have high blood pressure, assassinations are bungled as often as they come off, and increasing pressure from law enforcement means that a life of crime is no longer lived in the lap of luxury. As our world changes, so must mafias. Globalization, migration, and technology are disrupting their traditions and threatening their revenue streams, and the Mafiosi must evolve or die. Mafia Life is an intense and totally compelling look at these organizations and the daily life of their members, as they get to grips with the modern world.
Download or read book Odo Yakuza Tokyo written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Odo Yakuza Tokyo' is an intimate personal account of a Belgian photographer documenting the inaccessible subculture of Japanese organized crime: the Yakuza. Anton Kusters teams up with his brother Malik and documents the inside of the Shinseikai family, who control Kabukicho, the infamous red light district, in the heart of Tokyo. From funerals to covert training camps, business meetings to full on tattoo displays, the modern day enigma that is "Yakuza" in Japan is shown. The feeling of subtlety and massive underlying tension is present thoughout the images, constantly reminding us that this world we live in is not black verses white, not good versus evil ..."--Cover flap.
