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A review by regs_m
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
4.0
I quite enjoyed reading this, given I don't usually read non-fiction.
Is it perfect, no. Is it a story about dark stormy nights, Yakuza death threats and an enigmatic reporter seeking to expose the dark belly of the Japanese underworld? Kind of, but not really; It's probably readers and to a degree, the back covers failure that it emphasizes or sets expectations about the wrong thing the book is trying to achieve.
The bones of a great biography are there. Jake cares deeply; or I doubt he would have put himself into the positions he did, about the sex slave trade and the general disinterest the police and public at large took at the time. Honestly, the last few pages were a gut punch, and knowing this is likely to have happened (regardless of some reviewer's opinion) makes it far more impactful than a lot of fiction I've read lately.
Is it perfect, no. Is it a story about dark stormy nights, Yakuza death threats and an enigmatic reporter seeking to expose the dark belly of the Japanese underworld? Kind of, but not really; It's probably readers and to a degree, the back covers failure that it emphasizes or sets expectations about the wrong thing the book is trying to achieve.
The bones of a great biography are there. Jake cares deeply; or I doubt he would have put himself into the positions he did, about the sex slave trade and the general disinterest the police and public at large took at the time. Honestly, the last few pages were a gut punch, and knowing this is likely to have happened (regardless of some reviewer's opinion) makes it far more impactful than a lot of fiction I've read lately.