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Robert Whiting

“However, while it may be true that the open-air stalls did help get the economy going again to some degree and feed some of the hungry masses (government rationing being so inadequate that a Tokyo District Court judge who refused to eat anything purchased illegally died of malnutrition), the men who ran them were anything but altruistic.”

Robert Whiting, Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
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Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan (Vintage Departures) Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan by Robert Whiting
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