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Speaker: Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat
in Japan (Pantheon, 2009)
Topic: "Viceguy"
When: Starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, 06 December 2009
Admission: Buy a copy of Tokyo Vice from Good Day Books
After graduating from Tokyo's Sophia University, Missouri native Jake Adelstein worked from 1993 to 2005 as a crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper. He is the only American journalist to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club. From 2006 to 2007, Adelstein was the chief investigator for a US State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan, he now works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States. He is also the public relations director for the Washington, DC- based Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade.
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Pantheon, 2009) tells the riveting, often humorous tale of Adelstein's journey from an inexperienced cub reporter, who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial arts battle with a senior editor, to a daring investigative journalist, whose final scoop brought him face-to-face with Japan's most infamous yakuza boss.
To attend Jake Adelstein's BookNotes presentation on 06 December 2009, you must purchase a copy of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan from our shop. Hardcover copies of Adelstein's Tokyo Vice are available at Good Day Books for three thousand two hundred seventy six yen (¥3,276) each, tax included.
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