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Joshua Lawrence “Jake” Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American[1] journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan.

Jake Adelstein
Born	Joshua Lawrence Adelstein (1969-03-28) March 28, 1969 (age 53) Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Journalist, investigator, writer, researcher, risk analyst, editor, blogger
Nationality	American
Genre	True crime, non-fiction, journalism
Notable works	Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Children	2
Website
www.japansubculture.com

Career

Adelstein grew up in Missouri and moved to Japan at age 19 to study Japanese literature at Sophia University.[2] In 1993, Adelstein became the first non-Japanese staff writer at the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, where he worked for 12 years.[3]

After leaving the Yomiuri, Adelstein published an exposé of how an alleged crime boss, Tadamasa Goto, made a deal with the FBI to gain entry to the United States for a liver transplant at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2009, Adelstein published a memoir about his career as a reporter in Japan, Tokyo Vice, in which he accused Goto of threatening to kill him over the story.[4] There have been many doubts about the veracity of the tales described in the memoir.[5]

Adelstein was subsequently a reporter for a United States Department of State investigation into human trafficking in Japan, and now writes for the Daily Beast, Vice News, The Japan Times and other publications. He is a board member and advisor to the Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims (formerly Polaris Project Japan).

On April 19, 2011, Adelstein filed a lawsuit against National Geographic Television, which had hired him to help make a documentary about the yakuza, citing ethical problems with their behavior in Japan.[6][7] Adelstein withdrew the lawsuit a month later, after reaching a settlement.[8]

Works

• Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan. New York City: Pantheon Books. 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-37879-8. OCLC 699874898.
• The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld. New York City: Pantheon Books. 2016.
• Pay the Devil in Bitcoin: The Creation of a Cryptocurrency and How Half a Billion Dollars of It Vanished from Japan. New York City: Pantheon Books. 2017.

Further reading

• Hessler, Peter (9 January 2012). "All Due Respect". The New Yorker, Volume LXXXVII, No. 43, pp. 50–59.

Video

• Book Break: Robert Whiting and Jake Adelstein - “Beyond Tokyo’s Vices And The Underworld”, 16 March 2022, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan

References

External links

• Profile, Goodreads.com; accessed September 22, 2014.
• Jake Adelstein on LinkedIn

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