Confessions of a Yakuza
by Junichi Saga · first published 1997
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…Bible. The most useful book I've recently read is Steve Blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany[3]. It's a more structured version of a lot of the stuff I learned in YC. My favorite books of the past year are Confessions of a Yakuza[4] and Infidel[5]. The subjects of each book are as different as can be, but their stories are quite captivating. Both survived immense suffering and managed to thrive afterwards. Reading those books…
on “Ask HN: What Books Are You Reading?” ↗Eileen Powers' Wool Trade in English Medieval History, Geary's Before France and Germany, Dorrie's 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics, Saga's Confessions of a Yakuza, and a terrible book on Klee that I bought for the illustrations. If you want to understand Silicon Valley, I would not recommend Saxenian's book. Lecuyer's seems better.
on “Ask YC: Read any good books lately?” ↗I should quote from an older book called 'Confessions of a Yakuza', on the Yakuza from about 80 years ago, it's just so fitting: >The real reason why the police set him up, of course, was to improve the district’s anti-crime record. Sometime after I left jail—around…
on “A 1980s study on juvenile crime in Japan sheds light on American gun culture” ↗