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Japanese

We are Yakuza. When your ancestors were shepherds still screwing sheep on the Mediterranean coast, ours were the crime lords of Asia. ~ Lady Tanaka
— Boaz Yakin

Le Loup d’Hiroshima

Le Loup d’Hiroshima

By Yûko Yuzuki and Dominique Sylvain

Seventeen

Seventeen

By Hideo Yokoyama and Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)

Prefecture D

Prefecture D

By Hideo Yokoyama and Jonathan Lloyd-Davies (Translator)

Six FourReview

Six Four

By Hideo Yokoyama and Jonathan Lloyd-Davies (Translator)

Real World

Real World

By Natsuo Kirino and Philip Gabriel (Translator)

Grotesque

Grotesque

By Natsuo Kirino and Rebecca Copeland (Translator)

OutReview

Out

By Natsuo Kirino and Stephen Snyder (Translator)

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