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The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
$37.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start fr ...Show more
Tokyo Noir: In and out of Japan's underworld by Jake Adelstein
$37.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vicethat is equal parts history lesson, true-crime exposé, and memoir. It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijincrime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking cl ...Show more
Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
$37.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now a hit HBO Max TV series starring Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe & Rachel Keller From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, here is a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At the age of ...Show more
Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime
At 19, 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 Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of 80-hour work weeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption a ...Show more
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