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A review by carmenghia
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
4.0
Pretty solid balance of insider vs. outsider info working the crime beat of a major Japanese newspaper. It certainly demystifies a lot about Japanese bureaucracy within several industries: news, police, and yakuza.
The author is imperfect, most are, but there are several moments when he talks about himself that I wished he wouldn't. I think that I prefer the David Simon method of reporting (a la [b:Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets|18956|Homicide A Year on the Killing Streets|David Simon|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1317793065s/18956.jpg|3187942]) to Adelstein's.
The author is imperfect, most are, but there are several moments when he talks about himself that I wished he wouldn't. I think that I prefer the David Simon method of reporting (a la [b:Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets|18956|Homicide A Year on the Killing Streets|David Simon|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1317793065s/18956.jpg|3187942]) to Adelstein's.