Saga has written various books. Two, consisting of the recollections of the ordinary lives of people in the early twentieth century in the town of
Tsuchiura in
Ibaraki Prefecture, were translated into English as "Memories of Silk and Straw" and "Memories of Wind and Waves". He also wrote the 1989
Confessions of a Yakuza. The 1989 book was called "colorful, unorthodox" by the
International Herald Tribune, "a witness to the past" by
Le Monde, and "vivid and accurate" by the
Los Angeles Times.
Confessions of a Yakuza also briefly caused media coverage in 2003 when about a dozen passages were repurposed as lyrics by
Bob Dylan for his album
Love and Theft. ==Bibliography==