Jake Adelstein, Author Pantheon Books $26 (335p) ISBN 978-0-307-37879-8
A young Japanese-schooled Jewish-American who worked as a journalist at Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shinbun during the 1990s, debut author Adelstein began with a routine, but never dull, police beat; before long, he was notorious worldwide for engaging...
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Jake Adelstein. Scribe, $22 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-957363-57-8
Journalist Adelstein (Tokyo Vice) parlays decades of reporting on Japanese organized crime into a propulsive history of the yakuza. Drawing on interviews with both his yakuza and Japanese law enforcement contacts, he examines how yakuza groups...
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Jake Adelstein. Scribe, $22 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-957363-91-2
Journalist Adelstein follows up The Last Yakuza with another illuminating blend of memoir and reportage. For 12 years, Adelstein covered the crime beat at Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, focusing on organized crime. In late 2008, a purge of the top
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