Tendo lived her life in luxury until the age of six, when her father was sent to prison and her family fell into terrible debt. The yakuza is the name given to organized criminal gangs from japan. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, shoko tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. The japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them boryokudan, violent groups, ipa. These violent criminals have left their fingerprints on many aspects of japanese life, from lowly gambling and prostitution rackets to the halls of high. Gragert the power of the yakuza, japans legendary crime syndi cates, reaches into all areas of japans economic life and politics. The yakuza is not a single organization but rather a collection of separate gangs or clans akin to the american mafia. Yakuza wikipedia bahasa indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas.
Sejarah panjang yakuza dimulai kirakira pada tahun 1612, saat shogun tokugawa berkuasa dan menyingkirkan shogun kasai sebelumnya. Yakuza also known as gokudo are members of transnational organized crime syndicates. Yakuza kobe yamaguchigumi tadashi irie dob 09 dec 1944 previously designated on 19 dec 20 as a member of the yamaguchigumi kobe yamaguchigumi yamakengumi kunio inoue dob 22 aug 1948 takashi ikeda dob 21 jan 1945 osamu teraoka dob 03 march 1949 toshio masaki dob jan 1947 december 2016. During a yakuza initiation ceremony, the initiate will sit across from his organizational father figure, or oyabun, while a mix of sake japanese alcohol, salt, and fish scales is.
In japan and elsewhere, especially in the west, the term yakuza can be used to refer to individual gangsters or criminals as well as to their organized groups and to japanese organized crime in general. Login to add items to your list, keep track of your progress, and rate series. Their members are aging and the government of japan has launched a largescale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all. The fight that comes afterwards is the real challenge, so start prepared. The yakuza is the japanese mafia and their name essentially means good for nothing. At once heartrending and eyeopening, this truelife memoir is a shocking yet intensely moving firstperson account of one womans experience of growing up in japans yakuza society. Tendo lived her life in luxury until the age of six, when her father was sent to prison, and her family fell into terrible debt. Bullied by her classmates because of her fathers activities, and terrorized at home by her father, who became a drunken, violent monster after his release from prison, tendo rebelled. Little is known about him, however it is to be noted by whom. Yakuza moon ebook by shoko tendo 9784770050069 rakuten. May 24, 2017 the yakuza is the japanese mafia and their name essentially means good for nothing.
Born into the family of a wealthy crime boss, shoko tendo lives her early years in luxury. Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, shoko tendo lived her early years in luxury. However, japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the industrialised world, with crimes related to drugs officially against the yakuza code of honour or street gangs strikingly low, a fact that many contribute to the presence of the yakuza. Yakuza diary atlantic monthly press isbn 0871604x saga, junichi. Yakuza moon is a heartrending and eyeopening account of her experiences growing up in japans gangster society. Yakuza can refer to the crime syndicates as a whole, or to an individual gang.
Buku ini direkomendasikan untuk siapa saja yang tengah mencari pemahaman mendalam dan personal tentang masyarakat jepang. Memoirs of a gangsters daughter reprint by shoko tendo, louise heal translator isbn. During a yakuza initiation ceremony, the initiate will sit across from his organizational father figure, or oyabun, while a mix of sake japanese alcohol, salt, and fish scales is prepared. Several elements of yakuza, or japanese mafia, initiation rituals can be traced back to the rituals used by ancient samurai warriors.
Yakuza moon is the shocking, yet intensely moving memoir of 37yearold shoko tendo, who grew up the daughter of a yakuza boss. Memoirs of a gangsters daughter, which was published in the uk last month, became a surprise bestseller in japan in 2004, shining a light into a dark and little understood. In the game, getting the cards yakusa eightninethree is the worst possible hand you can get. Sinopsis buku yakuza moon bacaan yang sarat emosi dan menyayat hati. If the sum of the cards exceeds 10, its second digit is used as the score instead, and if the sum is exactly 10, the score is 1. The name yakuza originates from the traditional japanese card game oichokabu, a game in which the goal is to draw three cards adding up to a score of 9. Then, the family fell into debt, and tendo fell in with the wrong crowd. Memoirs of a gangsters daughter kodansha international 1.
We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Bullied by classmates who called her the yakuza girl, and terrorized at home by a father who became a drunken, violent monster after his. Shoko tendo yakuza moon is the shocking yet intensely moving firstperson account one womans experience of growing up in japans yakuza society. When i finished yakuza moon, a quote i read elsewhere sprang to mind. Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, shoko tendo lives. One thing, perhaps, that makes yakuza moon di6erent from previous japanese books and movies about the yakuza is that other writers and directors usually portray the yakuza protagonist as some kind of hero.
Tudo aqui gira ao redor da literatura, seja ela nacional ou estrangeira. Yakuza, also called boryokudan or gokudo, japanese gangsters, members of what are formally called boryokudan violence groups, or mafialike criminal organizations. Composed of some 3,000 separate, tightlyknit gangs, with over 80,000 members, the yakuza survive despite japans 1992 antigang law and other. The player takes on the role of kazama kiryu, a former yakuza boss and. The cancer of a nation or a necessary evil in a country with one of the. An annoying battle, but necessary for majimas legendary fighting stance.
Not simply because the yakuza is a male world, where women are accessories at best and chattel at worst, but because tendo was born too close to that world to say no to it from the beginning. Memoirs of a gangsters daughter by shoko tendo 40 yakuzamoon. I certainly believe in this axiom, in the use of art as alchemy to transmute our painful experiences into something beautiful, just as shoko tendo accomplished writing yakuza moon. But labeled the yakuza kid, she was a victim both of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates at school, and of her father\s drunken rages at home. This spring, sega usa released yakuza 3, the us version of the popular yakuza simulationaction game ryu ga gotoku 3. The ultimate symbiosis between the yakuza and the police that karel van wolferen described in 1984 does not endure today. Mar 12, 2017 an annoying battle, but necessary for majimas legendary fighting stance. This is the second book that i wrote for the japanese publisher, kodansha, with lovely art.
The yakuza, japans organised crime syndicates, are a dying breed. Remastered from the ground up, now in 4k and uncapped framerates on pc. The name is believed to be drawn from the lowest hand in the japanese card game baccara, which is similar to blackjack. Read yakuza moon memoirs of a gangsters daughter by shoko tendo available from rakuten kobo. Yakuza daughter lifts lid on hidden hell of gangsters families. Bullied by classmates and terrorized at home by a father who became a drunken, violent monster after his release from. Yakuza moon is the sort of autobiography that no woman should ever have to write. Become kazuma kiryu, an upandcoming yakuza who takes the fall for the murder of a crime boss, only to emerge from prison ten years later to a changed world. Segas criticallyacclaimed entry that started a legend. Memoirs of a gangsters daughter kodansha international isbn 9784770030429 young yakuza.
Yoshitomi hideaki is a yakuza and founder of the yoshitomi group, it is assumed by whom. Memoirs of a gangsters daughter kindle edition by tendo, shoko, louise heal, manabu miyazaki. Yakuza moon 979780268x shoko tendo gagasmedia september 2008 258 soft cover 140x200mm drama indonesia. In japan and elsewhere, especially in the west, the term yakuza can be used to refer to individual gangsters or criminals as well as to their organized groups and to.