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    Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
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    Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
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    Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

    Written by Jake Adelstein

    Narrated by Jake Adelstein

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    About this audiobook

    From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

    At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan's most infamous yakuza boss-and the threat of death for him and his family-Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back.

    In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter-who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editor-to a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day yakuza that even few Japanese ever see, Tokyo Vice is a fascination, and an education, from first to last.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 20, 2009
    ISBN9780307713162
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    Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
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    Jake Adelstein

    Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993, reporting in both Japanese and English. From 2006 to 2007 he was the chief investigator for a US State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. He has been writing for The Daily Beast, The Japan Times, and other publications since 2011, and was a special correspondent for The Los Angeles Times. Considered one of the foremost experts on organised crime in Japan, he works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States. He co-hosted and co-wrote the award-winning podcast about missing people in Nippon, The Evaporated: gone with the gods in 2023. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: a western reporter on the police beat in Japan, which is now a series on HBO Max, and also The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld (2023). He has appeared on CNN, NPR, the BBC, France 24, and other media outlets as a commentator on social issues in Japan, as well as its criminal justice system, politics, and nuclear industry giant, TEPCO.

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    • 3/5
      Bias: I lived and worked in Japan in 2001, and in the mid-1990s published a nightlife in Asia newsletter, where I had corresponded with one contributor, an American, who was an author who wrote books on local crime. He had some health problems. Although I met him once, I never heard from him again. I hoped this book might give some clues as to his whereabouts. It did not. I also wanted to find out about an entire island operated by yakuza. I did not find out anything about that place either.

      Book itself: However, I learned other things from this book, especially about life of an American working as a reporter in Japan. I found it entertaining also.