What is Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein about?

Tokyo Vice is a 2009 memoir chronicling Jake Adelstein's extraordinary career as the first American journalist at Japan's largest newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun. The book details his twelve years covering Tokyo's dark underbelly—including yakuza organized crime, human trafficking, extortion, and murder—culminating in a dangerous exposé that resulted in death threats against him and his family.

Who should read Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein?

Tokyo Vice appeals to readers interested in true crime, investigative journalism, and Japanese culture beyond typical Western perspectives. It's ideal for those fascinated by organized crime structures, cross-cultural experiences, and the challenges of immersive journalism. The memoir also suits readers who enjoy gritty, noir-style narratives and want an insider's view of Japan's criminal underworld.

Is Tokyo Vice worth reading?

Tokyo Vice offers unprecedented access to Japanese society's hidden layers through compelling storytelling and firsthand experiences. Kirkus Reviews praised it as "not just a hard-boiled true-crime thriller, but an engrossing, troubling look at crime and human exploitation in Japan." However, readers should note that some journalists have questioned the veracity of certain events and quotes in subsequent investigations.

Who is Jake Adelstein and what makes him unique?

Jake Adelstein is an American journalist born March 28, 1969, who moved to Japan at age nineteen. He became the first non-Japanese staff writer at the Yomiuri Shimbun on April 15, 1993, breaking into Japan's insular journalism world. His unique position as a gaijin (foreigner) gave him distinctive perspectives on Japanese crime reporting while navigating cultural complexities.

What is the yakuza as described in Tokyo Vice?

In Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein portrays the yakuza as Japan's massive organized crime syndicate operating like a legitimate corporation with tens of thousands of members and numerous sub-groups. Adelstein reveals how yakuza activities intertwine with police, media, and business in a complex power balance that Japanese authorities rarely disrupt. His reporting exposed this intricate relationship between law enforcement and organized crime.

What major scandal did Jake Adelstein expose in Tokyo Vice?

Jake Adelstein exposed how alleged yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto made a deal with the FBI to enter the United States for a liver transplant at UCLA. This investigative report, published as a Washington Post exposé, revealed how American authorities granted visas to yakuza members, creating an international scandal that reverberated from Tokyo's streets to FBI headquarters.

Why was Tokyo Vice never published in Japan?

Despite being translated into Japanese, no Japanese publisher would release Tokyo Vice due to safety concerns and legal risks. A 2008 risk assessment concluded that publishing could result in arson, building attacks, kidnappings, and violence against publisher employees. Jake Adelstein noted the book "steps on too many toes," leading Random House and Pantheon Books to publish it internationally instead.

How did Tokyo Vice inspire the Max television series?

Tokyo Vice became a Max original series in 2022, starring Ansel Elgort as Jake Adelstein with Michael Mann directing the first episode. The cast includes Oscar nominees Ken Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi, alongside Rachel Keller and Show Kasamatsu. Adelstein serves as executive producer, bringing his real experiences to the screen in this critically acclaimed adaptation.

東京罪惡

一名在日本负责警讯新闻的美国记者

杰克·阿德尔斯坦

3.9(18016 Reviews)

《東京罪惡》概述

作为日本最大报社的第一位美国记者，杰克·阿德尔斯坦（Jake Adelstein）这部爆炸性的回忆录曾被认为过于危险而无法在日本出版。这部扣人心弦的黑帮揭秘录——后来被改编为由安塞尔·艾尔高特（Ansel Elgort）主演的 HBO 热门剧集——真实地揭露了东京的地下犯罪世界，以至于作者随后收到了死亡威胁。

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第 1 章

Into the Heart of Tokyo's Underworld

When an enforcer from Japan's most notorious yakuza gang threatens to "erase you and maybe your family," most people would back down immediately. But for Jake Adelstein, an American reporter working for Japan's largest newspaper, this was just another day navigating the treacherous world of Tokyo's criminal underbelly. His investigation into how Tadamasa Goto, Japan's most feared gangster, managed to enter the United States despite being blacklisted and receive a million-dollar liver transplant had put him directly in the crosshairs of the Japanese mafia. "Tokyo Vice" has become a cultural phenomenon since its 2009 publication, inspiring the hit HBO Max series starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe. The book offers a rare insider's perspective on Japan's secretive criminal organizations from someone who infiltrated their world and lived to tell about it. Anthony Bourdain called it "a gripping and evocative journey through the underside of Japan," while The Washington Post described it as "a deeply thought-provoking book about the nature of right and wrong." What makes Adelstein's account so compelling isn't just the danger he faced, but how his journey transformed him from an idealistic young reporter to someone who understood that sometimes fighting monsters means becoming a bit monstrous yourself.

第 2 章

From American Student to Japanese Crime Reporter

July 12, 1992 marked the turning point in Jake Adelstein's life. After ranking a modest 59th out of 100 applicants on the entrance exam for the Yomiuri Shinbun, Japan's largest newspaper, he found himself in a series of increasingly improbable interviews. When questioned about being Jewish and the stereotype that Jews control the world economy, he quipped that if that were true, he wouldn't be applying for a modest-paying newspaper job. This moment of quick thinking and cultural navigation helped secure him a position that would change his life forever. Before officially starting, Adelstein requested an unusual preliminary internship to improve his Japanese interviewing skills. His first posting was to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department press club, where he met legendary journalist Ansei Inoue. The press club itself was hardly glamorous-a cluttered rectangular room with overflowing garbage cans, multiple televisions, and even a sleeping reporter with a newspaper covering his face. This unglamorous reality contrasted sharply with Adelstein's romantic notions of journalism. Over green tea, Inoue shared eight invaluable rules of reporting that would guide Adelstein throughout his career: never burn sources, finish stories quickly, trust no one, take any information available, remember unfinished stories, triangulate information from three sources, structure articles in reverse pyramid form, and never include personal opinions directly. This advice came from a man who had defied the system, rising from a regional hire to a prestigious Tokyo position. Adelstein's first real assignment came at the Chiba bureau, where he was sent to investigate Israeli street vendors paying protection money to yakuza. After two days of surveillance from a Mister Donut shop, he witnessed yakuza collecting shohadai (protection money) from vendors who couldn't report to police due to their tourist visa status. His resulting article unexpectedly made the national edition-a major accomplishment for someone not yet officially hired. When Adelstein finally started work officially, a human resources executive named Matsuzaka delivered a sobering monologue about the journalist's life: "It's not about learning. It's about unlearning... cutting off ties, getting rid of preconceptions." He warned that Adelstein would need to sacrifice relationships, pride, free time, and preconceptions to succeed, while cautioning that reporters are "expendable commodities" with short half-lives at the company. This warning would prove prophetic as Adelstein descended deeper into Japan's criminal underworld.

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第 3 章

Baptism by Fire: The Rookie Reporter's Trials

The Urawa office of the Yomiuri had a notorious reputation, described in a scathing magazine expose as a place of "Disillusion, Desperation, Suffering." Adelstein quickly discovered his first year would be an elaborate hazing ritual with minimal training. Four rookies were assigned as cannon fodder: Tsuji (Frenchie), Kouchi (Chappy), Yoshihara (The Face), and Adelstein himself (the Gaijin). They formed an instant bond that would prove crucial to their survival. Beyond reporting, their duties included taking dinner orders from senior staff, maintaining meticulously organized scrapbooks (with rules more complex than actual reporting), writing birth announcements, and covering local sports. The calendar showed no vacation days for rookies. Their first real assignment came when a man was found stabbed to death in a station wagon. At the crime scene, Adelstein struggled to interview locals who initially mistook him for a newspaper delivery boy. Eventually, he discovered from a worker that the victim had been having an affair with a coworker named Yoshiyama who hadn't been to work for days. This lead proved crucial when they learned she was being questioned by police. After several months on the police beat, Adelstein had made friends with several cops but still hadn't uncovered a single scoop on his own. Getting exclusive stories required cultivating sources among lower-ranking detectives and convincing editors to run stories without official releases. His breakthrough came through blackmail. While investigating a professional pickpocket case, he needed details from the difficult Detective Chief Fuji. When Fuji refused to help, Adelstein discovered a police bulletin about a local thief, photographed it secretly, and threatened to publish the information-potentially disrupting their ongoing investigation. Fuji, cornered, offered exclusive details about the pickpocket case in exchange for dropping the thief story. This ethically questionable tactic yielded a fascinating story about a professional pickpocket who committed 420 thefts in under a year. Working weekdays while telling his wife he helped at a Tokyo bar, he'd wear a suit and target sleeping passengers on late-night trains. His specialty was "buranko"-removing wallets from suit jackets hanging on hooks. He'd take only cash and return the wallets without waking his victims, demonstrating remarkable skill. As Adelstein noted in his published story, everything in Japan, even theft, is treated as an art form.

第 4 章

The Manual Society: Japan's Obsession with Perfection

Japan is a society obsessed with doing things the right way-there's a perfect way for everything, including suicide. This reverence for "the way" (tao in Chinese philosophy) has made Japan a culture that loves manuals and doing things by the book. Ancient Japanese believed in kotodama-the spiritual power residing in words-which created a reverence for written language that persists today. Modern Japanese society still embraces manuals, so much that terms like manual ningen ("manual humans") and shijimachi ningen ("waiting-for-instructions people") describe those who can't think independently. Amazon Japan listed nearly 10,000 manuals when Adelstein wrote his book, with bestsellers reflecting Japanese society's priorities and concerns. The bestselling manuals included guides for arguing with Koreans about Japan's imperial history, tax preparation for stockholders, landlord advice, suicide methods, sexual techniques (complete with 400 photos), cardiac life support, foreplay, engineering exam preparation, dating strategies, and university entrance exam preparation. These top ten sellers reveal Japanese preoccupations: three involve sex, two involve life and death-a telling balance. In his second year as a reporter, medical examiner Takagi invited Adelstein to a crime scene-a rare opportunity since police radio broadcasts had gone digital. At a nondescript apartment building, he encountered a teenage suicide victim who had meticulously followed instructions from "The Perfect Manual of Suicide" to electrocute himself. The boy had thoughtfully left a polite warning note taped to his back. Takagi encouraged Adelstein to write about this dangerous book that not only aided but encouraged suicide. This experience highlighted Japan's manual-driven culture-from suicide guides to Adelstein's own police reporter manual that outlined the hierarchical police system. The Japanese police system operates as a strict pyramid. At the top sits the National Public Security Council under the prime minister, followed by the National Police Agency. Below are forty-seven prefectural police bureaus, with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department being most prestigious. Each prefecture governs local stations and neighborhood koban outposts. The system ensures headquarters detectives control major cases while station detectives handle grunt work. For reporters, success means cultivating relationships with detectives before headquarters takes over cases. This requires extensive schmoozing-learning officers' birthdays, family details, bringing gifts, and offering rides-creating a system where police effectively manipulate the press while reporters willingly submit for the chance at scoops.

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第 5 章

The Serial Killer and the Detective: A Deadly Game

Adelstein's focus shifted to covering a potentially explosive case involving Gen Sekine, a dog breeder near Kumagaya suspected of being a serial killer with yakuza connections. Over the previous decade, several people associated with him had mysteriously disappeared. The cold case was reopened when businessman Akio Kawasaki went missing after a disagreement with Sekine. Police had formed a special ten-detective task force, focusing on fraud charges as a way to get warrants more easily than for homicide. His research revealed Sekine was a celebrated dog breeder who had made Alaskan malamutes prestigious show dogs in Japan. He had a colorful background, claiming to have lived in Africa, hunted in the bush, and even wrestled lions. He owned three shops and planned to create a miniature safari park. By late January, they had identified four people believed killed by Sekine: Kawasaki, a housewife, a yakuza boss named Endo, and his driver. In Konan, Adelstein learned Endo had been well-liked despite being the number two man in the Takada-gumi crime family. Locals believed "Kennel chopped him up and fed him to the dogs." Following his colleague Yamamoto's advice to bring ice cream when meeting Detective Sekiguchi, Adelstein arrived at the detective's modest home where his daughters immediately questioned whether he was human or a "tengu" (Japanese goblin) due to his features. Though initially rejected, his ice cream strategy worked, and Sekiguchi invited him in. After careful questioning, Sekiguchi revealed shocking details: Sekine had likely killed eight people, with Endo's murder having the strongest evidence. He described how Sekine, a former yakuza himself, became an exotic pet supplier to crime families, once cutting off a dog's ear during a price negotiation. Sekiguchi warned Adelstein to be careful with this information to protect his sources. The investigation took a dramatic turn when a Takada-gumi member named Shimizu attacked Sekine at his African Kennel shop. When Sekiguchi questioned Takada directly, the crime boss dismissed Shimizu as a "total fuckup" who should have "buried the knife in the dog man's gut" if he was going to attack him at all. Sekiguchi was carefully managing appearances to protect Sekine while investigating Endo's disappearance, having discovered that a local vet had sold Sekine strychnine nitrate for "putting sick animals to sleep." Through a complex web of relationships, including Endo's girlfriend Yumi-chan and another hostess named Kimiko with whom Adelstein began an affair, information flowed between the reporter, his sources, and the police. The breakthrough came when Kimiko revealed that a key witness had tapes of Sekine essentially confessing to the murders. After months of cat-and-mouse, yakuza boss Takada tracked down the key witness Shima, who confessed everything. Police found Kawasaki's teeth in Gunma Prefecture, and on January 5th, they arrested Gen Sekine and his wife.

第 6 章

Into the Heart of Kabukicho: Tokyo's Red-Light District

After a boring stint covering politics in Saitama, Adelstein was assigned to the Fourth District in Tokyo-essentially Hell itself. The vice squad. By now he was married to Sunao, a bilingual reporter he'd wed just before her thirtieth birthday. His new beat included Kabukicho, Tokyo's notorious red-light district-a combat zone of drugs, prostitution, sexual slavery, yakuza, and every imaginable vice. Though Governor Ishihara had tried cleaning it up after the horrific Mei-sei 56 fire that killed forty-four people, it remained seedy and dangerous. He was partnered with Okimura, a former kickboxer with experience covering Yokohama's criminal underworld. The Shinjuku police station housed their press club-a massive room with newspaper desks and even a tatami room for sleeping. His predecessor, "Crumbly," warned him that district reporters were merely "cannon fodder" for headquarters. "Nobody expects you to get a big scoop," he explained, noting that murders in Kabukicho were routinely downgraded to manslaughter to avoid investigations. The vice police chief, whom everyone called "The Mole," was notorious for obstructing reporters. He refused Adelstein's requests to meet detectives, insisting all inquiries go through him. Fortunately, the police chief had heard about him from a venerated Yomiuri police reporter and overruled The Mole. A carton of Lucky Strikes helped secure this goodwill. His first case involved "The Mature Hot Wives Party Palace" which earned $400,000 annually through prostitution. When he naively asked what "honban" meant, the room erupted in giggles as Detective Shimozawa explained it meant actual sexual intercourse. After the press conference, a tall, thin detective with jet-black eyes (nicknamed "Alien Cop") offered to explain Tokyo's vice world to him. He gave Adelstein his card and invited him to meet later that night. Alien Cop explained Japan's sexual paradoxes with remarkable candor. "The restriction on normal intercourse makes it more interesting," he explained. "It forces people to search for new avenues of erotic pleasure." He took Adelstein to various establishments in Kabukicho, revealing the complex ecosystem of Tokyo's sex industry and the yakuza's role in controlling it.

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第 7 章

The Lucie Blackman Case: Tragedy in Roppongi

Adelstein had promised to call Tim Blackman about his missing daughter Lucie, a former British Airways stewardess who disappeared on July 1, 2000. She and her friend Louise had come to Japan on tourist visas to work as hostesses at Casablanca club in Roppongi, earning about $50 an hour plus drinkbacks. On July 1, Lucie called Louise saying she was meeting a customer who would buy her a cell phone. Two days later, Louise received a strange call from someone claiming Lucie had joined a cult. When Louise filed a missing persons report, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Investigative Division took over the case. Adelstein's senior colleagues assigned him to help investigate since he could blend in with the foreign community. He spent nights in Roppongi gathering information, eventually learning about a suspicious customer named "Yuji" who frequented hostess clubs and preferred blondes. By October, police had identified Joji Obara as a suspect, arresting him for sexual assault in another case. The investigation intensified as police discovered Obara's disturbing pattern: luring foreign women with invitations to "look at the ocean," drugging their drinks, and sexually assaulting them while unconscious. Police seized thousands of items from his properties, including videos documenting his "subjugation play"-over a hundred recordings of him assaulting unconscious women. Through various contacts in Roppongi clubs, including a Swedish student named Layla and information about a witness named Melissa, Adelstein pieced together that Lucie and Obara had definitely met at Casablanca club a week before her disappearance. He'd spoken with her for hours, ordered expensive drinks, paid cash, and preferred English over Japanese. This information became a scoop for the Yomiuri, angering police who'd wanted to surprise Obara with this evidence. In February, based on new evidence from a rental car's odometer, police sent a hundred officers to search Miura beach again for Lucie's body. They quickly found Lucie's remains hidden in a cave wall along the oceanfront. Her head was encased in concrete, and the decomposition smell was so strong some young officers became ill. Adelstein had to break the news to Tim Blackman, who seemed resigned rather than shocked. "It's good to know what really happened," he said quietly. The case highlighted Japan's problematic approach to sexual assault. Police treat rape as a low-priority crime with minimal penalties, and hostesses-especially foreign ones-are often viewed as manipulative victimizers rather than victims. Though female officers now investigate sexual assaults, victims are still treated poorly, with evidence routinely destroyed and rape kits rarely used. Had earlier complaints about Obara been taken seriously, Lucie would likely still be alive.

第 8 章

The Emperor of Loan Sharks and the Yakuza Empire

After his IT crime stint, Adelstein returned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department beat in August 2003. He partnered with "Chuckles" Masami Murai, a tough female reporter with a distinctive husky laugh. On his second night shift, he covered a press conference about a warrant for the arrest of Susumu Kajiyama, the "Emperor of Loan Sharks"-a Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza who had created a nationwide network of nearly a thousand loan shark operations. Kajiyama had revolutionized predatory lending by purchasing databases of heavily indebted people with poor credit and contacting them directly through phone and email. His operation appeared legitimate on the surface, with attractive receptionists in professional storefronts, but charged interest rates up to 1,250 times the legal limit. When borrowers fell behind, his collectors used intimidation tactics that drove some victims to suicide. Intrigued by Kajiyama, Adelstein met with Noya, a retired Organized Crime Control Bureau officer, who provided extensive background: Kajiyama had twelve arrests dating back to 1974, had served time for extortion and drug charges, and was now the number two in the Goryo-kai faction of the Yamaguchi-gumi. Noya suspected connections between Kajiyama and the Goto-gumi, who had spearheaded the Yamaguchi-gumi's expansion into Tokyo. The yakuza originated from two main groups: tekiya (street merchants and con artists) and bakuto (gamblers who evolved into loan sharks and pimps). Nearly half are Korean-Japanese, with another large faction being dowa, Japan's former untouchable caste. Japan has twenty-two officially recognized yakuza groups, with the three largest being the Sumiyoshi-kai (12,000 members), the Inagawa-kai (10,000 members), and the dominant Yamaguchi-gumi (40,000 members). The Yamaguchi-gumi collects roughly $50 million monthly from its subgroups. Overall, Japan has about 86,000 yakuza members-far exceeding the American Mafia at its peak. Modern yakuza operate as legitimate corporate entities with the same rights as ordinary citizens. They've infiltrated real estate (one-fifth of their front companies), securities trading, and legitimate businesses. The Tokyo police identified about 1,000 yakuza front companies in 2006, with construction, real estate, finance, bars, and consulting being the most common. The yakuza have metastasized into Japanese society, operating openly in ways unimaginable in America or Europe. Major gang bosses are celebrities who grant interviews, own talent agencies, and are glamorized in media. As one Osaka detective noted, "They have more money and more power than ever before... capital, manpower, and an information network that rivals anything the police have."

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第 9 章

Human Trafficking and the Final Confrontation

Adelstein continued investigating human trafficking in Tokyo's sex industry, speaking with a woman named Helena who connected him with insider information about an operation run by men named Viktor and Slick. They recruited Eastern European women through false promises of lucrative hostess work, then forced them into prostitution by confiscating passports, charging inflated fees, and threatening their families. Through persistent investigation, he uncovered J Enterprise's elaborate trafficking network spanning multiple clubs in Tokyo, bringing in approximately $20,000 monthly. Despite learning that Slick was untouchable due to his assistance in the Lucie Blackman case, Adelstein pursued the story and eventually interviewed Veronika, a Polish victim who described her horrifying experience of deception, threats, and exploitation. Playing Viktor and Slick against each other, he got Slick to admit to passport theft, coercion, and running an illegal prostitution operation. His article ran on February 8, 2004, but his hopes for justice were quickly dashed when he spoke with a detective from Organized Crime Control Division 1. He explained they'd have to arrest and deport any victim who came forward, making it impossible to build a case against the traffickers without sacrificing Adelstein's sources. Disillusioned but determined, he shared everything with a U.S. Embassy contact. He was gratified when the State Department placed Japan on a human trafficking watch list, ranking them just above North Korea-a national humiliation that finally prompted action. At a UN conference, he publicly challenged the National Police Agency's claims about their trafficking prevention efforts, later writing a provocative headline calling Japan a "Kingdom of Human Trafficking." The stories of victims haunted him-a Thai sex worker's toothless child denied dental care, a Korean woman infected with AIDS by her abuser, an Estonian woman brutally sodomized. He began spending his own money to help victims, sometimes funding abortions or airfare home. His work consumed him, affecting his marriage as he grew distant and lost interest in sex. Adelstein's final and most dangerous investigation involved Tadamasa Goto, Japan's most notorious gangster. His research revealed Goto as a formidable figure: the spearhead of Yamaguchi-gumi's Tokyo infiltration, owner of over 100 front companies, with personal wealth exceeding half a billion dollars. His most infamous act was allegedly ordering the 1992 attack on film director Juzo Itami for portraying yakuza as "money-grubbing, ill-mannered louts" in his film Minbo no onna. The most shocking revelation: Goto had received a liver transplant at UCLA in 2001 through an FBI deal. Facing death from hepatitis C, Goto approached the FBI through an intermediary, offering yakuza intelligence in exchange for a US visa. Though he received his transplant on July 5, he provided only a fraction of promised information before returning to Japan. By late 2007, Goto discovered Adelstein was writing about his UCLA transplant and FBI deal. A source warned him Goto planned to kill him, making it look like suicide. Adelstein was placed under police protection on March 5, 2008, with an FBI agent accompanying him to the National Police Agency. Though he refused to reveal his yakuza source, making 24-hour protection difficult to justify, he was grateful for whatever protection he could get. An NPA officer warned him against returning home: "If you go home and he knows where you live, you put your family in the cross fire." He advised Adelstein to publish quickly: "Once you get it printed, there's less incentive to kill you." After Japanese publications refused to run the story, Adelstein reached out to The Washington Post. After rigorous fact-checking and independent FBI confirmation, they published the story on May 11. The Japanese media initially ignored it, but a follow-up piece in the Los Angeles Times focusing on UCLA's role finally forced some coverage. In a final act of courage, Adelstein contributed to an anthology of "forbidden news stories" in Japanese, naming not only Goto but three other yakuza who had received liver transplants. On October 14, Goto was officially expelled from the Yamaguchi-gumi. Though the official reason was "partying and playing hooky," police assured Adelstein the publication had been the tipping point. In April 2009, Tadamasa Goto took Buddhist vows and began studying to become a priest-likely a publicity stunt to impress judges in his upcoming trial or to dissuade the Yamaguchi-gumi from killing him. The irony wasn't lost on Adelstein, as he once considered the same path. "I fought poison with poison and probably poisoned myself in the process, but that was the only way to do it," he reflected. "I protected my people and did my job, and in the end, that's a kind of victory."

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《東京罪惡》核心主题

yakuza criminal underworld
investigative journalism ethics
japanese police culture
foreigners in japan
organized crime corruption

《東京罪惡》经典语录

trust no one
Reporters are expendable commodities.
It's about unlearning...
fighting monsters means becoming a bit monstrous yourself.
everything in Japan, even theft, is treated as an art form.

《東京罪惡》主要人物

Jake AdelsteinAmerican reporter for the Yomiuri Shinbun
Tadamasa GotoNotorious and feared yakuza gang leader
Ansei InoueLegendary journalist and mentor to Adelstein
MatsuzakaHuman resources executive at the Yomiuri Shinbun
Detective Chief FujiDifficult police source on the pickpocket beat

关于作者

杰克·阿德尔斯坦（Joshua Lawrence "Jake" Adelstein）是《东京罪恶：一个美国记者在日本警视厅的报道经历》（Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan）一书的作者，也是日本有组织犯罪和调查新闻领域的顶尖专家。阿德尔斯坦1969年出生于密苏里州，1993年他成为了日本最大报纸《读卖新闻》历史上首位非日籍入职记者，并在那里从事了12年的犯罪新闻报道。

他的回忆录记录了他深入日本犯罪地下世界的史无前例的经历，揭露了雅库扎（yakuza）网络、人口贩卖行动，以及日本社会中犯罪记者与警察之间复杂的关系。

阿德尔斯坦曾为《每日野兽》（The Daily Beast）、《Vice新闻》和《日本时报》（The Japan Times）撰稿，并担任“灯塔：人口贩卖受害者中心”（Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims）的顾问。他曾多次出现在CNN、NPR和BBC，讨论日本的有组织犯罪问题。他的其他著作还包括《最后的雅库扎：日本地下世界的生与死》（The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld）。

《东京罪恶》于2022年被改编为广受好评的Max原创剧集，由安塞尔·艾尔高特（Ansel Elgort）主演，将阿德尔斯坦开创性的调查工作带给了全球观众。

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