![]() ![]() ![]() 'Expertly told and highly entertaining' GEORGE PELECANOS, writer and producer of The Wire 'Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else' ROBERTO SAVIANO, author of Gomorrah 'Gripping and absorbing. Tokyo Vice An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein 9780307475299 (Paperback, 2010) Delivery UK delivery is usually within 6 to 8. With its visceral descriptions and detailed exploration of the modern-day yakuza, Tokyo Vice is a deeply thought-provoking book: equal parts cultural expose, true crime and hard-boiled noir. 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. Working eighty-hour weeks for twelve years, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, first-hand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. BUT WE'LL DO THEM FIRST, SO YOU LEARN YOUR LESSON BEFORE YOU DIE. ![]() Now a Max Original Series on HBO Max - EITHER ERASE THE STORY, OR WE'LL ERASE YOU. ![]() A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organised crime from an American investigative journalist. ![]()
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