Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Pantheon Books)

The only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club will read and discuss his unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

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.

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Hardcover)

By Jake Adelstein

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9780307378798
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Published: Pantheon, 10/2009

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