For those of you interested in learning more about Japan than you can by reading tourist guides comes this book. I think it’s a real eye-opener for people who see Japan as the land of electronics, anime and women wearing kimono.
Theft News has this report:
“Yakuza Moon” is a shocking story of the side of Japan most Japanese would prefer the rest of the world never knew about.
But thanks to Kodansha International, yakuza gang boss’s daughter Shoko Tendo’s best-selling autobiography is now out in English and accessible to a wider audience.
“Yakuza Moon” tracks 38-year-old Osaka-born Tendo’s life from her early years where her status as a yakuza gang boss’s daughter started her roller-coaster ride through luxury, bullying, discrimination, domestic violence and reform school. It moves on to her time as a teen biker gang moll sucking on first paint thinner and then shooting up speed, a substance that later become an addiction fostered by one of the many brutal thugs she shares her life with in early adulthood.
More vicious beatings, exploitation by infidel men, rape, miscarriage and heartbreak follow. Reconciliation with her parents is tempered by grief at their deaths. Mental illness and a suicide attempt add to the already bleak picture. But as “Yakuza Moon” is written with such candor and huge investment of emotion, it’s impossible to desert Tendo and put her book down.
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