Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist. Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of...
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A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist. Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo to the polished Halls of the FBI and resulted in a death threat for him and his family, Adelstein decided to step down. Then, he fought back. In Tokyo Vice he delivers an unprecedented look at Japanese culture and searing memoir about his rise from cub reporter to seasoned journalist with a price on his head.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307475299 (0307475298)
Publish date: October 5th 2010
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Journalism,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Crime,
True Crime,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
I have mixed feelings about this book. It starts out as an irrelevant story about the author's journey into journalism in Japan as a foreigner and also about the relationship with the police. However, you already know the poop is going to hit the fan. It becomes riveting and I couldn't put the book...
Jake Adelstein is an American reporter who briefly ran a one-man crusade against the vice industry in Japan, with specific reference to human trafficking of Eastern European women into seedy Shinjuku, Tokyo. At the height of his work, he was briefly a special officer for the State Department, and I...
Nope!It's never a smart idea to get on the bad side of the Yamagushi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime group. But when Jake Adelstein, a student from New Jersey, decides to join Japan's largest daily newspaper as a crime reporter, it isn't long before his investigations earn him some powerful en...
This is how great Twitter can be: when I was just 20 pages into Tokyo Vice, I posted this update:Jake Adelstein's TOKYO VICE makes me want to be yakuzaHe responded the next day with:@calebjross It's supposed to have the opposite effect. :)Considering that this exchange was completely unanticipated, ...