Tokyo vice : an American reporter on the police beat in Japan / Jake Adelstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adelstein, Jake.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adelstein, Jake.

Crime--Japan.

Crime.

Crime and the press.

Japan.

Crime and the press--Japan.

Reporters and reporting--Japan.

Reporters and reporting.

Physical Description:

x, 335 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2009]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Ten thousand cigarettes

The morning sun. 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 : when the Yakuza come calling ; The Saitama Dog Lover Serial Disappearances, part one : so you're asking me to trust you? ; The Saitama Dog Lover Serial Disappearances, part two : out of bed. Yakuza are worthless leeches

The working day. 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

Dusk. The empire of human trafficking ; Ten thousand and one cigarettes ; Back on the beat ; Yakuza confessions ; Two poisons.

ISBN:

9780307378798

0307378799

OCLC:

391393076