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A review by blevins
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
4.0
Non-fiction book set in Tokyo that covers two topics really well--what it is like to work for a Japanese newspaper and various elements of the Japanese criminal world. Tokyo Vice is pretty good if you are into either of these topics. It's sordid, gripping, interesting.
Book follows Adelstein as he begins to work as a lowly reporter--the only American on staff on Japan's largest paper--and learn the ropes. He works the police beat. This leads him to cover the yakuza, prostitution, Japan's crazy sex laws, homicide cases, etc etc. He especially gets drawn into the human trafficking world that was rife in Japan during the years Adelstein was a reporter--through the '90s mostly.
If you are into Japan, crime or journalism at all--this is recommended.
Book follows Adelstein as he begins to work as a lowly reporter--the only American on staff on Japan's largest paper--and learn the ropes. He works the police beat. This leads him to cover the yakuza, prostitution, Japan's crazy sex laws, homicide cases, etc etc. He especially gets drawn into the human trafficking world that was rife in Japan during the years Adelstein was a reporter--through the '90s mostly.
If you are into Japan, crime or journalism at all--this is recommended.