TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adelstein,Jake
TI  - Tokyo vice: an American reporter on the police beat in Japan 
SN  - 0307378799
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Adelstein, Jake.
KW  - Crime and the press
KW  - Japan
KW  - Crime
KW  - Reporters and reporting
N2  - 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
ER  -