Books like Yakuza moon by Shōko Tendō

The Orphan Master's Son follows a man's journey through propaganda, identity, and state power in North Korea.

Across centuries and continents, Daniel remembers his past lives and his soulmate Sophia, now Lucy, as they navigate a love that keeps repeating and unraveling—until they confront the force that has kept them apart.

David E. Kaplan’s comprehensive study traces Japan’s Yakuza from medieval outlaws to powerful modern syndicates, detailing their culture, reach, and influence in business and society.

During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, 17‑year‑old Hanneke secretly trades black market goods while grieving her boyfriend’s death and shielding her parents from the harsh reality of wartime life.

"For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens of Paris were gripped by a violent crime streak. A group of bandits went on a rampage throughout the city and its suburbs, robbing banks and wealthy Parisians, killing anyone who got in their way, and always managing to stay one step ahead of the police. But Jules Bonnot and the Bonnot Gang weren't just ordinary criminals; they were anarchists, motivated by the rampant inequality and poverty in Paris. John Merriman tells this story through the eyes of two young, idealistic lovers: Victor Kibaltchiche (later the famed Russian revolutionary and writer Victor Serge) and Rirette Maîtrejean, who chronicled the Bonnot crime spree in the radical newspaper L'Anarchie. While wealthy Parisians frequented restaurants on the Champs-Élysées, attended performances at the magnificent new opera house, and enjoyed the decadence of the so-called Belle Époque, Victor, Rirette, and their friends occupied a vast sprawl of dank apartments, bleak canals, and smoky factories. Victor and Rirette rejected the violence of Bonnot and his cronies, but to the police it made no difference. Victor was imprisoned for years for his anarchist beliefs, Bonnot was hunted down and shot dead, and his fellow bandits were sentenced to death by guillotine or lifelong imprisonment. Fast-paced and gripping, Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits is a tale of idealists and lost causes--and a vivid evocation of Paris in the dizzying years before the horrors of World War I were unleashed."--Jacket flaps.

Ruth Wariner, the 39th of 42 siblings, chronicles her childhood in a polygamist community on a Mexican farm and her eventual search for freedom between Mexico and the United States.

Socio‑researcher Sudhir Venkatesh infiltrates a Chicago crack‑dealing gang, documenting urban poverty and crime from within.

Japanese women who arrive by mail order bride and other channels to San Francisco in the early 20th century and the daily reality, hopes, and hardships they face while trying to build new lives in America.