Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld by Junichi Saga

Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld

Junichi Saga with John Bester (Translator)

253 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction biography history reflective medium-paced

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This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a good life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he ...

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Moods

adventurous 77%
informative 66%
reflective 66%
dark 55%
emotional 33%
inspiring 22%
funny 11%
lighthearted 11%
relaxing 11%

Pace

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fast 37%
slow 12%

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