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An American Reporter On The Police Beat In Japan
Pantheon
October 2009
On Sale: October 13, 2009
352 pages
ISBN: 0307378799
EAN: 9780307378798
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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