A study of the role of Americans in the growth and development of the Tokyo underworld since the end of World War II
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Robert Whiting is the author of <b>You Gotta Have Wa</b> and is one of the very few Westerners to write a regular column in the Japanese press. He has appeared as a commentator in documentaries about Japan and on such shows as Larry King Live and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. He has also written for <i>The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report,</i> and <i>Time,</i> among other publications. He lives in Tokyo.
ccount of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945.<br><br>In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting but ever-profitable alliances with warring Japanese and Korean gangsters. At the center of this world was Nick Zappetti, an ex-marine from New York City who arrived in Tokyo in 1945, and whose restaurant soon became the rage throughout the city and the chief watering hole for celebrities, diplomats, sports figures, and mobsters.<br><br>Tokyo Underworld chronicles the half-century rise and fall of the fortunes of Zappetti and his comrades, drawing parallels to the great shift of wealth from America to Japan in the late 1980s and the changes in Japanese society and U.S.-Japan relations that resulted. In doing so, Whiting exposes Japan's extraordinary "underground em
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