Tokyo Vice : a Western reporter on the police beat in Japan / Jake Adelstein
- Bib ID:
- 8038631
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Adelstein, Jake, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Carlton North : Scribe Publications, 2010
- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2010
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 406KB
- ISBN:
- 9781922072054 (EPUB)
- Summary:
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From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, here is a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At the age of 19, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquillity. What he got was a life of crime ... crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shimbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour work weeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan's most infamous yakuza boss - and with the threat of death for him and his family - Adelstein decided to step down ... momentarily. Then, he fought back. In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his transformation from an inexperienced cub reporter to a daring investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and candid exploration of the world of modern-day yakuza that even few Japanese ever see, Tokyo Vice is a fascination, and an education, from first to last.
- Full contents:
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- About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Prelude: Ten Thousand Cigarettes; Part 1; Fate Will Be on Your Side; It's Not About Learning- It's About Unlearning; All Right, Punks, Grab Your Notebooks; Blackmail, a Budding Reporter's Best Friend; It's the New Year, Let's Fight; The Perfect Manual of Suicide; The Chichibu Snack-mama Murder Case; Bury Me in a Shallow Grave:; The Saitama Dog Lover Serial Disappearances, Part One:; The Saitama Dog Lover Serial Disappearances, Part Two:; Part 2; Welcome to Kabukicho!; My Night as a Host(ess).
- Whatever Happened to Lucie Blackman?ATMs and Jackhammers: A Day in the Life of a Shakaibu Reporter; Evening Flowers; The Emperor of Loan Sharks; Part 3; The Empire of Human Trafficking; Ten Thousand and One Cigarettes; Back on the Beat; Yakuza Confessions; Two Poisons; Epilogue; Notes on sources; Acknowledgments; Authors note.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- Subject:
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- Adelstein, Jake
- Crime and the press -- Japan
- Crime -- Japan
- Reporters and reporting -- Japan
- Asian history
- Biography & Autobiography - Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- Biography: general
- History - Japan
- Language Arts & Disciplines - Journalism
- Media, information & communication industries
- Organized crime
- Travel - Asia - Japan
- True Crime / Organized Crime
- Australian
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Scribe
- Copyright:
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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