Jake Adelstein
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japan, sex work, crime, buddhism, organized crime, japanese subculture, yakuza, injustice, kit-kats, police, corporate malfeasance
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akb48, the beatles
調査報道記者・Tokyo Vice (原作の著者) Investigative journalist, Zen Buddhist Priest, Paladin, Social Justice 🥷 Ninja, Author of #TokyoVice #TokyoNoir 禅僧 @thedailybeast
Jake Adelstein’s Biography
I was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shinbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, from 1993 to 2005. From 2006 to 2007 I was the chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Considered an experts on organized crime in Japan, I work as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States. I'm also a board member Washington, D.C. founded Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) was published in 2009. The Last Yakuza : A Life In The Japanese Underworld is coming out in 2014.