Tokyo under World / Original Title: TOKYO UNDERWORLD (Kadokawa Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] The Roppongi restaurant "Nicolas" was a "Ryozanpaku" where John Wayne, Rikidozan, and even the Crown Prince frequented, but it was also the site of Yakuza warfare.... This long-awaited reprint of a masterpiece of in-depth reporting on the turbulent life of Nicola Zapetti, a former U.S. soldier who succeeded in one business after another in postwar Tokyo, a city of money and intrigue! The standard-bearer of comparative cultural theory between Japan and the U.S. reveals the dark side of "Nippon" hidden behind the high economic growth and the Olympic Games. Includes 100 pages of notes.

六本木のレストラン“ニコラス”はジョン・ウェインから力道山、皇太子までも出入りする「梁山泊」でありながら、ヤクザの抗争の場にもなっていた...。カネと権謀渦巻く戦後の東京で次々にビジネスを成功させた元米兵ニコラ・ザペッティ、その激動の半生を徹底取材した傑作、待望の復刊!日米比較文化論の旗手が、高度成長とオリンピックに隠された“ニッポン”の闇をあぶり出す。約100頁の執筆ノートも収録。