CONTENTS
Part I
Unusual Events and the Limiting Fault
ONE: Cowboys and yakuza
TWO: From paperwork to fieldwork
THREE: The North Pole of Japan
FOUR: Meet Michiel Brandt
FIVE: When you want rice cakes, go to the rice cake maker
SIX: Occupational hazards
SEVEN: Pachinko wonderland
EIGHT: Pachinko 101
NINE: The world according to Mr Lee
TEN: Scarecrows
ELEVEN: Hanekaeri
Part II
The Meltdown
TWELVE: The envelope
THIRTEEN: How to make a percutaneous ethanol injection cocktail
FOURTEEN: Yakuza to the rescue
FIFTEEN: The dark empire
SIXTEEN: Who goes there?
Part III
Reconstruction
SEVENTEEN: Murder is expensive
EIGHTEEN: The yakuza Olympics: publish or perish
NINETEEN: The yakuza Olympics redux: paying respects
TWENTY: A new life in a ghost town
TWENTY-ONE: Shukumei and the meaning of March 28