Ayo lit - any good Yakuza book / Jap crime stuff?
Nope. Sorry.
>>7455434
Are you sure?
>>7455371
That's Tracy McConnell.
She has good feet.
>>7455371
>>7455604
know that one
anything else?
>>7455371
Ryu Murakami and Natsuo Kirino
I'm not certain but it's highly unlikely that I'm wrong.
APACHE'D
Not quite yakuza, but kabuki (and xenophobic hilarity at times)
>>7455772
>Not quite yakuza, but kabuki (and xenophobic hilarity at times)
kabuki? you don't even know what the fuck you're talking about. yes, a lot of the story takes place in kabuki-cho which is an area in the shinjuku ward of tokyo, but the word kabuki by itself means the japanese drama-form, or nothing. check your fucking privilege homeboyyyy
>>7455813
Why did you post this?
>>7455813
And to OP, Tokyo Vice is, unfortunately, one of the best in English. I say unfortunately because Adelstein is a vain motherfucker and the writing has a sense of bravado underneath it that makes it hard to read. But fuck it, he has seen some cool shit I guess. Japanese Underworld (Robert Whiting) and Yakuza (David Kaplan) are both good. Speed Tribes is also good if you want a broader subculture book, but it's pretty dated at this point.
>>7455628
Really, this is the answer.
>>7455829
put some dumb anon in his place obviously. what's the world without some flex
>>7455831
Damn, there should be some good novels about yakuza written by Japanese authors, right? Just untranslated? Their manga/doujin industry fucking love writing about yakuza.
>>7455772
That has nothing to do with kabuki. What the fuck do you think that word means?
>>7455834
Thanks.
There's also Miyuki Miyabe, and Seicho Matsumoto, but the latter is more mystery than crime. I really know more about the detective genre than any sort of thrillers like I think OP is after.
>>7455868
Not neccessarily thrillers; apart from Yakuza I'm looking for any sort of good Japanese genre/pop-lit, whatever.
>>7455719
>not scalped
Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga.
Bob Dylan ripped off large sections of this book for lyrics.
>>7456114
>large sections
>>7455371
Who is this gunning for my humping?
>>7455371
Can you read Japanese? If yes, then there is tons.
>>7457688
No one sensible would waste countless hours doing memorization practices just to read subpar literature.
>>7457692
Genre literature is subpar, but Japanese literature in general is not.
>>7455371
The Cage by Kenzo Kitaka. Dude is a well known writer of crime violence and whatnot
>>7457587
It's Zahn McClarnon.
>>7457707
True, but still inferior to European classics. Thing is, the language takes far too much time to learn. And even then you have to grind it daily in order for all the effort not to go to waste.
>>7455371
Edogawa Rampo is early Japanese detective stuff. He also has some good short horror stories.
>>7456040
This is Fargo, not Blood Meridian
>>7459526
Read him, he's more of an interesting footnote than a good writer.
>>7460406
Not in the history of Japanese literature, no. He's the foundation of the genre and the reason behind its proliferation there.
His work aimed at children probably isn't going to seem like high quality literature to Westerners, because it's not. He's one of the few who continued writing despite the censors in WW2.
>>7455371
I found this while I was working at the back of a thrift store. Best non-fiction account of the old Yakuza that I've ever seen, very weird and Japanese but in a cool way.
unfortunately copies are hard to find
