Name: Tokyo Vice
ISBN: 9780307378798

Jake Adelstein

An American journalist offers a unique, firsthand look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up, recounting his time as a crime reporter covering the seedy side of Japanese society.

An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

Tokyo Vice

Rowan Myers

Riah Forbes 

I expected to be on-the-edge-of-my-seat enthralled for the entirety of this book, but I only sort of felt that way for the last chapter or so. While the actual content is crazy, the writing style didn't really draw me in - I felt more like I was reading a novel-length newspaper article.

Sara

Aubin LORIEUX

Camila Sánchez

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 deeply thought-provoking book: equal parts cultural exposé, true crime, and hard-boiled noir.

Cristhian Tilleria

Marisa N

Andrew Louis

Scordatura

Ri Liu

Nguyen Huu Thong

An American journalist offers a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up, in a book where he recounts his time as a crime reporter in the seedy side of Japan where extortion, murder, human trafficking and corruption were the norm.

Tokyo Vice An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

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