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Tokyo-to. Minato-Kuyakusho.
Minato-ku shi [A History of Minato Ward]
. Minato Ward Office of Tokyo, 1960, 1979.

Tokyo-to. Shibuya Kuyakusho.
Shibuya-ku Shi [A History of Shibuya Ward]
. Shibuya Ward Office of Tokyo, 1966.

Ushijima Hidehiko.
Mo Hitotsu No Showa Shi (1): Shinso Kairyu No Otoko: Rikidozan. [One More Showa History [1]: Rikidozan, Man of Deep Currents]
. Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1978.

Ushijima, Hidehiko.
Rikidozan. Osumo, Puro-Resu Ura Shakai [Rikidozan: The Hidden World of Sumo and Professional Wrestling]
. Tokyo: Daisan Shokan, 1995.

——.
Uyoku Jiten [Right-Wing Dictionary]
. Tokyo: Shakai Mondai Kenkyu-kai, 1970.

Yamanouchi, Yukio.
Sabishigariya Hittoman [The Lonely Hitman]
. Tokyo: 1989.

Za Desutoroiya (The Destroyer).
Yottsu no ji no Hitori Goto [Tale of the Figure-Four Leglock]
. Tokyo: Besuboru Magajin Sha, 1984.

FILMS AND VIDEOS IN JAPANESE

Rikidozan to Sono Jidai [Rikidozan and His Era]
. 60 minutes. Beungei Shunju, 1995.

Rikidozan
. 61 minutes. Pony, Canyon, 1978.

Chi To Okite [Blood and Law]
. Shochiku Film Studios, 1966. Video:
Nikkatsu Meisaku Eigakan
. 1994.

Chi No Sakazuki [Blood Toast]
. Shochiku film Studios, 1969. Video:
Nikkatsu Meisaku Eigakan
. 1994.

KEY MAGAZINE ARTICLES IN JAPANESE


Kodama No Kage De Odoru Aru Fuikusa’
[‘The Fixer Who Danced in Kodama’s Shadow’].
Asahi Journal
, October 1, 1976, pp. 12–16, and October 8, 1976, pp. 14–19.


Kodama Yoshio To Wa Nanika?’
[‘What Is Yoshio Kodama?’].
Bungei Shunju
, May 1976, pp. 94 – 130.

DOCUMENTS

Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. Ninety-Fourth Congress Second Session on Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Part 14 February 4 and 6 and May 4, 1976. Printed by the Committee on Foreign Relations. US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1976. 70-4670

The New International Criminal and Asian Organized Crime Report. Prepared by the Permanent Subcommittee Investigation of the Committee on Governmental Affairs. US Senate. 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, December 1922. US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1993. 102-29.

Index

ACJ
29
,
33
,
160–1

Adachi, James
123–5
,
126

Agriculture Ministry, Japanese
34

aircraft industry
x
,
12
,
103–5
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
169–70

Aizawa, Seishisai
183

Aizukotetsu
263

Akasaka district
35
,
49
,
63
,
67
,
83
,
85
,
95
,
99
,
100
,
101–3
,
106
,
112
,
150
,
151
,
157
,
158
,
204
,
208
,
224

Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan
66–7
,
68
,
101

Aksenoff, Eugene
184
,
201
,
251

Alexander, Corky
94
,
116

All Nippon Airways (ANA)
168
,
169
,
170
,
177
,
179
,
180
,
200
,
235

All Nippon Airways Hotel
200
,
235

All-Temperature Cheer
197

Almond Coffee Shop
181

Ameko
15
,
117

American Chamber of Commerce
61
,
112–13
,
119

American Club
34
,
61
,
62
,
63
,
197
,
214

American Council
29

American Express
54–5
,
213

American Museum of Natural History
260

Amnesty International
51

Ando, Akira
8–9

Ando, Noboru
121
,
148

anti-Communist activities
10
,
31
,
32
,
37
,
72
,
73
,
77
,
120

Ark Hills
200
,
265

Army, US
7
,
9
,
12
,
17
,
62
,
164

Criminal Investigation Division of
37–8

see also
GIs in Japan

Asahi Television
200

Asakusa
9
,
83

Asian Wall Street Journal
224

Asset Management International Financial Settlement (AMIFS)
217

Associated Press (AP)
8
,
93

Atsugi
112
,
143
,
145

audio watches
230

Austin, Killer
85

automobile pollution
100

bai-bai-keiyaku
(sales contract)
150
,
154

bakuto
2
,
8
,
9
,
34
,
70
,
191

Bank of America
17
,
29

Bank of Japan
12
,
136
,
194
,
245
,
254

Bank of Texas
18

baseball
41–2
,
69
,
90
,
156
,
161
,
235
,
236

Basic Instinct
(film)
254

Beverly Hills Cop II
(film)
258

bicycle racing
156

Black Dragon Society
71

black magazines
107–8

black market
x
,
1–30
,
35
,
58
,
73
,
74
,
110
,
111
,
113
,
118
,
169
,
184
,
195
,
210
,
220
,
240
,
251

establishment of
1–3
,
4–5

exploitative nature of
8

GIs and
5–8
,
13–14

Lansco operation in
13
,
17–22
,
36–8

size of
23

Zappetti’s early dealings in
13
,
14
,
15
,
16–18

Black Ships
ix

Blakemore, Frances Baker
34
,
260

Blakemore, Thomas
25–6
,
33–4
,
108
,
120
,
126–30
,
152
,
195
,
259–60

background of
25

death of
259–60

experimental farming project of
260

Imperial decoration received by
260

law practice of
33
,
195
,
260

Occupation as viewed by
25–6

wealth of
33
,
108
,
195

Yozawa River Project of
126–30

Blassie, Freddie
74

Blood Toast
(film)
121–2

Bob (GHQ associate of Zappetti’s)
16

‘Bob Hope Golf Club’ scam
213–14
,
210

Boborov, Vladimir
37–8

booking agents
106

boryokudan
70
,
262

boxing
156

Boxing Magazine
90

bribery, Japanese legal definition of
173

bugyo
148

Bungei Shunju
233
,
234

Bush, George
217
,
239

Bush, Prescott
217–18

Bushell, Raymond
51
,
131

bushido
ethic
3

business entertaining
102
,
156
,
244

Caesar’s Palace
157

Calhoun, Haystack
68

Cali cartel
191

California
22
,
28
,
163
,
169–70
,
175
,
206
,
210–11
,
233
,
250
,
258

Capone, Al
34

Caravansary restaurant
106–7
,
261

Cargill
60

Carnera, Primo
43

casinos
34–6

caste system
4–5

cellular phones
198
,
204
,
224

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
x
,
32
,
35
,
37
,
49
,
72
,
73
,
95
,
97–8
,
105
,
156
,
157–8
,
172–3
,
174
,
175
,
177

LDP funded by
72
,
74
,
98
,
156

Chanté
bordello
158
,
159

Chase Manhattan Bank
29
,
33
,
216

‘cherry blossom gang’
114

China, People’s Republic of
27
,
31
,
35
,
71
,
87

Chi to Okite (Blood and Law
) (film)
149

Church, Frank
173

Church Committee
173
,
175
,
178

Civil Code, Japanese
23
,
33

civil court system, Japanese
146–7

Club
88
80–1

Club Mandarin
35
,
36
,
38

Club Riki
75

Coca-Cola
120
,
213

cocaine
113
,
191
,
194

Colt
60

Columbia Pictures
233

‘comfort girls’
7

Commerce Department, US
22

communism, Communists
10
,
22
,
27
,
29
,
31
,
32
,
37
,
63
,
72
,
73
,
74
,
77
,
91
,
93
,
98
,
120

con artists
x
,
184
,
219

‘confusion’
110
,
123
,
199
,
254

Congress, US
170
,
182
,
191
,
262
see also
House of Representatives, US; Senate, US

construction boom in Tokyo
99

construction industry
3
,
5
,
8–9
,
72
,
90
,
99
,
106
,
156
,
171
,
172
,
198–200
,
256–7
,
265

contracts, Japanese vs American views of
151–2

Copacabana nightclub
102–3
,
104
,
106
,
131
,
158
,
160
,
178

Coppola, ‘Trigger’ Mike
13

corporate ‘security’ racketeer (
sokaiya
)
68
,
107–8
,
205–6
,
254
,
257–9

corporations, foreign, in Japan
60–1

‘Crazy Emi’ (fur lover)
116–17

Crazy Horse club
101

CREEP
177

Crime Prevention Bureau, Japanese
11

crime rate
36

Criminal Code, Japanese
52
,
190

criminal justice system, Japanese
50
,
51
,
146–7

Cupid bar
166–7

currency exchange laws
18
,
74
,
125
,
173
,
218
,
254

currency exchange rates
18
,
173
,
177

Customs Service, US
258

daibutsu bensai
(property law)
146
,
150
,
187

Daiei Film Studios
75

Daiei Motion Picture Company
127

Dai-Ichi Hotel
15

Daimyo bottlers
120

Dai-Nippon Kogyo
96

Daiwa securities
216

dango
199–200
,
257

Danny’s Inn
158

Dark Society
see Yami Shakai

Defense Department, US
27
,
159

democracy
ix
,
4–5
,
9
,
12
,
24
,
27
,
88
,
170
,
181
,
183
,
253

‘Dewi’ (Naoko Nemoto)
103

Diet, Japanese
10
,
28
,
105
,
157
,
174
,
177
,
179
,
180–1
,
219
,
233
,
253

Dillon, Read
27

dollar, US
8
,
17–18
,
21
,
32
,
37
,
58
,
74
,
113
,
125
,
153
,
177
,
187
,
193
,
195
,
200

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