Tokyo Vice : : an American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: x, 335 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307475299
9780307378798
0307378799
SUBJECTS
Adelstein, Jake.
Crime -- Japan.
Crime and the press -- Japan.
Reporters and reporting -- Japan.