Jake Adelstein

Jake Adelstein is a former crime reporter and an expert on Japan’s notorious crime gangs, the yakuza. His first book, Tokyo Vice, was published in 2009 and combined memoir with an exposé of Japan's criminal underbelly, themes that he has continued to explore in his latest books, The Last Yakuza and Tokyo Noir.

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Tokyo Noir

Jake Adelstein

A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime expose, and memoir.

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The Last Yakuza

Jake Adelstein

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before.

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Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

Jake Adelstein

For 12 years Jake Adelstein covered the seedy side of Japan, a world of extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption. But when it brought him face to face with Japan’s…

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