Ebook: Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Author: Jake Adelstein
- Tags: Adelstein Jake, Crime and the press, Japan, Crime, Japan, Reporters and reporting, Japan, Crime, Crime and the press, Reporters and reporting, Japan
- Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: Japan., S.l
- Language: English
- epub
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 Read more...
Abstract: 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