With the reviews accompanying being truly rave and a TV series already in pre-production stage, “Tokyo Vice” seemed like the book every fan of true crime dreams of reading. At the end, however, it was so much more.
The book begins as an autobiography of Jake Adelstein’s time in Japan, starting just after his graduation from Sophia University in Tokyo, in 1992, and actually retains that tone until the end of the book. In that fashion, the story traces his path from his decision to become a reporter for the Yomiuri, to the unlikely success that had to do with both effort and luck, his training at the Tmpd (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department) press club, to his first station in Urawa and the ones that followed, a number of high and low profile cases, and the eventual “clash” with the Yakuza.
However, through these stories, what is...
The book begins as an autobiography of Jake Adelstein’s time in Japan, starting just after his graduation from Sophia University in Tokyo, in 1992, and actually retains that tone until the end of the book. In that fashion, the story traces his path from his decision to become a reporter for the Yomiuri, to the unlikely success that had to do with both effort and luck, his training at the Tmpd (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department) press club, to his first station in Urawa and the ones that followed, a number of high and low profile cases, and the eventual “clash” with the Yakuza.
However, through these stories, what is...
- 9/8/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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