Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld by Jake Adelstein | Paperback | Classical

About this book <p><strong>A darkly comic sequel to <em>Tokyo Vice</em> that is equal parts history lesson true-crime exposé and memoir.</strong></p> <p>It's 2008 and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only <em>gaijin</em> crime reporter for the <em>Yomiuri Shimbun</em>. The global economy is in shambles Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes and Tadamasa Goto the most powerful boss in the Japanese organized crime world has been banished from the yakuza giving Adelstein one less enemy to worry about--for the time But as he puts his life back together he discovers that he may be no match for his greatest enemy--himself.</p> <p>And Adelstein has a different gig these days: due diligence work or using his investigative skills to dig up information on entities whose bosses would prefer that some things stay hidden.</p> <p>The underworld isn't what it used to Underneath layers of paperwork corporations are thinly veiled fronts for the Pachinko parlors are a hidden battleground between disenfranchised Korean Japanese and North Korean extortion TEPCO the electric power corporation keeping the lights on for all of Tokyo scrambles to hide its willful oversights that ultimately led to the 2011 Fukushima And the Japanese government shows levels of corruption that make the yakuza look like philanthropists in All this is punctuated by personal tragedies no one could have seen coming.</p> <p>In this ambitious and riveting work Jake Adelstein explores what it's like when you're in too deep to distinguish the story you chase from the life you live.</p> Related topics japanese crime books, japanese true crime, books about japanese gangs, japanese criminal gangs, undercover reporting, investigative reporting, books about japan, japanese culture.