Tokyo vice an american reporter on the police beat in japan vintage crime black lizard english edition ebook adelstein jake amazonde kindle shop. Jake adelstein is the only american journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular tokyo metropolitan police press club where for twelve years he covered the dark side of japan extortion murder human trafficking fiscal corruption and of course the yakuza but when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of tokyo to the polished halls of the fbi and resulted in a death threat for him and his family adelstein decided to step . Jake adelstein is the only american journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular tokyo metropolitan police press club where for twelve years he covered the dark side of japan extortion murder human trafficking fiscal corruption and of course the yakuza but when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of tokyo to the polished halls of the fbi and resulted in a death threat for him and his family adelstein decided to step . A jewish american who acquired japanese language skills sufficient to be recruited as the first foreigner ever to work for japans top selling newspaper the yomiuri shimbun not to be confused with its english offshoot the daily yomiuri tokyo vice is the tale of adelsteins unique experiences including his near fatal run in with one of japans major crime bosses and his admirable exposure of an important scandal. Jake adelstein is the only american journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular tokyo metropolitan police press club where for twelve years he covered the dark side of japan extortion murder human trafficking fiscal corruption and of course the yakuza but when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of tokyo to the polished halls of the fbi and resulted in a death threat for him and his family adelstein decided to step