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Tokyo Noir - In and Out of Japan's Underworld by Jake Adelstein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tokyo Noir - In and Out of Japan's Underworld about?
It’s 2008, and it’s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. 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 being. But as he puts his life back together, he discovers that he may be no match for his greatest enemy―himself. 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. The underworld isn’t what it used to be. Underneath layers of paperwork, corporations are thinly veiled fronts for the yakuza. Pachinko parlors are a hidden battleground between disenfranchised Korean Japanese and North Korean extortion plots. 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 meltdown. And the Japanese government shows levels of corruption that make the yakuza look like
Who reads Tokyo Noir - In and Out of Japan's Underworld?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jake Adelstein
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781761380235
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, True Crime, Political Science