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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.
At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, 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 bossand the threat of death for him and his familyAdelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back.
In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporterwho made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editorto a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an 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.
At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, 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 bossand the threat of death for him and his familyAdelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back.
In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporterwho made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editorto a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an 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.
著者について
Jake Adelstein was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shinbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, from 1993 to 2005. From 2006 to 2007 he was the chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan, he works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States. He is also the public relations director for the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade.
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11 人中、7人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
5つ星のうち 5.0
Tells it like it is!,
By John Michael White "JMW" (Chiba, Japan) - レビューをすべて見る
レビュー対象商品: Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (ハードカバー)
Jake really let's go on the underground activities in Japan. Raw and brutal, it tells the story of the yakuza in Japan, and the victims. The book really picks up toward the second half. It was hard to put down! Highly recommended.
6 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
5つ星のうち 4.0
Confirms my worst fears,
By Hugh Ashton "Hugh" (Kamakura) - レビューをすべて見る
レビュー対象商品: Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (ハードカバー)
I found the "back-story" of the intermeshing relationship between the press, police and the underworld in Japan to be fascinating. Some of this was at least suspected by me, even if I didn't know it for sure. What's interesting is that some of the events and circumstances in Jake's book were described in my novel At the Sharpe End ' but this was written before I'd read Tokyo Vice.Jake's style is that of a no-nonsense reporter - it may not be "literary", but it performs its functions admirably - it tells the story in a clear unambiguous fashion. A highly recommended read for those who watch the Japanese media and feel "there must be something more to this story than they're reporting". There is, and here it is, in its full horror.
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