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From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.<br> <br> At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious <i>Yomiuri Shinbun</i>. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human t
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- Author
- Adelstein, Jake
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307378798
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Social Science, Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (5,340 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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