A review by aangelinee
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein

informative fast-paced

3.0

The author reminisces his time in Tokyo, working as a journalist in collaboration with the police and sometimes gathering information from criminals. A lot of focus is on the illegal sex industry in Tokyo, as well as other parts of the Japanese criminal underworld, which is quite interesting. However, sometimes the story is hard to follow, as the author jumps from one subject to another and sometimes the writing feels like the introduction of a Wikipedia page rather than a story. All in all, this is a decent book, I have enjoyed a lot of parts, as I was not entirely familiar with Yakuza or working as a journalist who writes about crime.