Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

Tokyo vice, an American reporter on the police beat in Japan, Jake Adelstein

eng

contains biographical information

no index present

non fiction

Tokyo vice

391393076

Jake Adelstein

an American reporter on the police beat in Japan

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. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan--extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption. Here, he tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter to a daring investigative journalist with a yakuza price on his head. With its visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day yakuza that even few Japanese ever see, this is a fascination, and an education.--From publisher description