Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

Adelstein, Jake

ISBN 10: 0307378799 / ISBN 13: 9780307378798

Verlag: Pantheon, 2009

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Inhaltsangabe:

An American journalist offers a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up, in a book where he recounts his time as a crime reporter in the seedy side of Japan where extortion, murder, human trafficking and corruption were the norm.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jake Adelstein was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shinbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, from 1993 to 2005. From 2006 to 2007 he was the chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan, he works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States. He is also the public relations director for the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the ...
Verlag: Pantheon
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag