Tokyo vice : an American reporter on the police beat in Japan /
Adelstein, Jake.
Tokyo vice : an American reporter on the police beat in Japan / Jake Adelstein. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2009. - x, 335 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
0307378799 9780307378798
2009023026
Adelstein, Jake.
Crime and the press--Japan.
Crime--Japan.
Reporters and reporting--Japan.
Tokyo vice : an American reporter on the police beat in Japan / Jake Adelstein. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2009. - x, 335 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
0307378799 9780307378798
2009023026
Adelstein, Jake.
Crime and the press--Japan.
Crime--Japan.
Reporters and reporting--Japan.