Tokyo Vice
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Finally, thanks to all the people who stuck by me in hard times. I will remember, and I will repay in kind.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
For those who are interested in knowing more about crime in Japan or the yakuza, or who would like to read the summary section of the NPA report on the Goto-gumi, I’ve posted it and some relevant materials on my often neglected Web site, www.japansubculture.com. Much of it is in Japanese—sorry about that. Someday it will be a truly bilingual thing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jake Adelstein was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shinbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, from 1993 to 2005. From 2006 to 2007 he was the chief investigator for a U.S. State Department–sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan, he works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States. He is also the public relations director for the Washington, D.C.–based Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade.
Copyright © 2009 by Joshua Adelstein
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A portion of this work originally appeared in Maxim.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adelstein, Jake.
Tokyo vice : an American reporter on the police beat in Japan / Jake Adelstein.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37894-1
1. Adelstein, Jake. 2. Crime—Japan. 3. Crime and the press—Japan.
4. Reporters and reporting—Japan. I. Title.
HV7113.5.A34 2009 364.10952—dc22 2009023026
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