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Gangsters, Geishas, Monks & Me: A Memoir of Three Years in the Underbelly of Japan

Gangsters, Geishas, Monks & Me: A Memoir of Three Years in the Underbelly of Japan

          
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As a young American in a Zen monastery in a small Japanese fishing town and later as that town's only resident foreigner, Gordon Hutchison knows mistakes have consequences. But when he befriends the local yakuza boss, his life takes a dramatic turn into the unforgiving dictates of gangsters and geishas-where one misstep could cost him much more. Irreverent yet introspective, Gangsters, Geishas, Monks & Me chronicles Hutchison's odyssey through the foreigner-hostile backdrops of Zen, the yakuza and the "water trade" in his trial-by-fire initiation into Japanese culture. From below-freezing monastery winters to mob meetings with murder on the agenda to love cabaret-style, his graphic narrative is as thought- provoking as it is improbable. A story so rare, so revealing, that 60 Minutes tracked Hutchison down to interview "the only foreigner to hang out with yakuza," Gangsters, Geishas, Monks & Me takes readers deep inside clandestine worlds where few Japanese dare venture and no foreigner has gone before.
About the Author: Gordon Hutchison hit the road after Duke University in 1971 with a BA in Psychology and Religion. After four years hitchhiking America, Germany and the Virgin Islands, he landed in Japan on the first stop of a trip around the world-a 30-year first stop. After his years with the gangsters, geishas and monks, he went on to specialize in Japanese folk religions at Sophia Graduate School of International Studies, teach Hatha yoga in Japanese and log twenty-four years as a copywriter-four at the world's largest ad agency and the rest at the smallest, his own. He lives with his nine-year-old son Evan in Cary, North Carolina.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781475158939
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 652 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1475158939
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Memoir of Three Years in the Underbelly of Japan
  • Width: 152 mm

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