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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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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 Japanβs most infamous yakuza bossβand the threat of death for him and his familyβAdelstein 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 reporterβwho made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editorβto 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.
 Media BuzzDaily Show with Jon Stewart - November 16, 2009
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