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Summary of Jake Adelstein's Tokyo Vice

Autor: Everest Media,

Número de Páginas: 51

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had come with backup, a low-ranking cop formerly assigned to the Anti–Organized Crime Task Force in Saitama Prefecture. Chiaki Sekiguchi. He was a little taller than I, almost as dark, thickset with deep-set eyes and a 1950s Elvis haircut. He was mistaken for a yakuza a lot. #2 I was ready to leave my job, but not like this. I had only enough information to have gotten me into this unpleasant face-off with Goto. I didn’t have all the facts yet, but I couldn’t let them know that. #3 The enforcer tried to scare me into leaving the newspaper, but instead I decided to stay and find out what Goto was afraid of. I had to wait a year or two, but I was able to return to doing what I loved.

TOKYO VICE/LE DERNIER DES YAKUZAS.

Autor: Jake. Adelstein

Tokyo detective

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 0

Après avoir fait tomber un des plus grands parrains de la mafia japonaise, l'ancien journaliste d'investigation Jake Adelstein s'est reconverti en détective privé, traquant les yakuzas devenus hommes d'affaires. Mais lorsqu'en 2011 la catastrophe de Fukushima s'abat sur le Japon, elle vient ébranler ses convictions les plus profondes : le mal est tombé là où il ne s'attendait pas et touche ses amis les plus proches. Le justicier est assailli de doutes : la vérité doit-elle être recherchée à tout prix ? Jake Adelstein va devoir décupler ses forces pour la révéler au grand jour. [4e de couv.]

Tokyo Vice

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 435

Cuando Jake Adelstein se incorporó al departamento de policía del mayor diario de Japón, el Yomiuri Shinbun, solo tenía 24 años, y le faltaba mucho para dominar los códigos de este país, muy diferente de su Missouri natal. Primer y único periodista extranjero en incorporarse a la redacción de un periódico japonés, cubrió durante doce años casos relacionados con extorsiones, asesinatos, tráfico de personas, corrupción fiscal y la mafia Yakuza. No dudó en adentrarse en los bajos fondos de la capital donde reinan el vicio y la decadencia, y contra todo pronóstico, se convirtió en el interlocutor preferido de la mayor organización criminal de Japón, mientras seguía colaborando con la policía. Una posición peligrosa que le obligó a entrar en un juego cuyas reglas desconocía. Cuando su última investigación destapó un escándalo que se propagó desde las calles saturadas de neón de Tokio hasta los relucientes salones del FBI, empezó a temer por su vida.

Tokyo Noir

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 292

A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that 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 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 organised 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 parlours 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...

Tokyo Noir

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 323

Yakuza y corrupción en el país del sol naciente: bienvenidos al Japón real En Japón, la corrupción del gobierno está alcanzando cotas inauditas. Bajo montañas de papeleo, se ocultan empresas que solo son tapaderas para la Yakuza y los mafiosos imponen su ley en los salones de juego. Los negocios sucios llegan hasta la central nuclear de Fukushima, que hace todo lo posible para esconder sus acuerdos con la Yakuza. Y entonces, un terremoto de magnitud 9,0 sacude todo el país... Jake Adelstein fue el primer occidental en trabajar como reportero en el periódico Yomiuri Shimbun, el diario más importante del país nipón, y es célebre por sus investigaciones y artículos sobre los miembros de la Yakuza y los bajos fondos japoneses, que han sido adaptados por HBO/Max en la serie Tokyo Vice. Ahora, Adelstein nos trae en Tokyo Noir una investigación del hampa japonesa y nos sumerge en un mundo vetado a los occidentales. Descubriremos un Japón muy distinto al de las guías turísticas, azotado por la violencia y la corrupción, donde los tentáculos de la mafia llegan hasta los rincones más insospechados. ¿Estás dispuesto a conocer el Japón real? Del autor de Tokyo Vice,...

Tokyo Vice

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 404

A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organised crime from an American investigative journalist. Now a Max Original Series on HBO Max ---------- EITHER ERASE THE STORY, OR WE'LL ERASE YOU. AND MAYBE YOUR FAMILY. BUT WE'LL DO THEM FIRST, SO YOU LEARN YOUR LESSON BEFORE YOU DIE. From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, first-hand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. 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 Yomiuri Shinbun. Working eighty-hour weeks for twelve years, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face-to-face with Japan's most infamous yakuza boss - and the threat of death for him and his family - Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back. With its visceral descriptions and detailed exploration of the modern-day yakuza, Tokyo Vice is a deeply thought-provoking book: equal...

Tokyo Détective

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 326

Après avoir fait tomber un des plus grands parrains de la mafia japonaise, l'ancien journaliste d'investigation Jake Adelstein s'est reconverti en détective privé, traquant les yakuzas devenus hommes d'affaires. Mais lorsqu'en 2011 la catastrophe de Fukushima s'abat sur le Japon, elle vient ébranler ses convictions les plus profondes : le mal est tombé là où il ne s'attendait pas et touche ses amis les plus proches. Le justicier est assailli de doutes : la vérité doit-elle être recherchée à tout prix ? Jake Adelstein va devoir décupler ses forces pour la révéler au grand jour.

J'ai vendu mon âme en bitcoins

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 170

The Devil Takes Bitcoin

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 169

The wild, true story of cyber-era commerce, crime, cold-hard cash, and one of the greatest heists in history. Even in hell, Bitcoin talks. This modern take on an old Japanese saying still holds true. Cryptocurrency was supposed to do for money what the internet did for information, but it didn’t work out that way. Its virtual existence unleashed real-world chaos — especially in the homeland of its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Tokyo was the centre of the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, until that company collapsed with nearly half a billion dollars’ worth of bitcoin gone missing. It might be the greatest heist in history. If it was a heist. So what really happened? Here’s the true story of the humble-to-hot commodity, from the former geek website that launched the boom to an inside world of absent-minded CEOs, hucksters, hackers, cybercrooks, drug dealers, corrupt federal agents, evangelical libertarians, and clueless techies. You’ll discover Bitcoin’s connection to the infamous Silk Road, learn why hell has nothing on Japan’s criminal justice system, and get the lowdown on the high cost of betting with the Devil’s dollars. All of this for less ...

Le Dernier des Yakuzas

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 418

Jake Adelstein en a bien conscience : il ne s'en sortira pas vivant sans aide. Après avoir écrit un article sur Tadamasa Goto, il a tout le Yamaguchi-gumi à ses trousses. Partant du vieux principe selon lequel " les ennemis de mes ennemis sont mes amis ", Jake Adelstein engage un ancien yakuza, Saigo, qui appartenait à la branche ennemie de Goto. En échange ? Jake doit écrire la biographie de son protecteur. À partir de la vie de cet homme qui a connu l'âge d'or des yakuzas, Jake Adelstein dresse une fresque épique de la mafia japonaise, des années 1960 à nos jours. C'est Le Parrain au pays du Soleil-Levant, cela commence sur fond de tatouages sophistiqués et se termine dans les milieux de la finance. Entre-temps, les yakuzas ont perdu leur sens de l'honneur.

The Literary Review

Número de Páginas: 784

Le dernier des yakuzas

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 362

Jake Adelstein en a bien conscience : il ne s'en sortira pas vivant sans aide. Après avoir écrit un article sur Tadamasa Goto, il a tout le Yamaguchi-gumi à ses trousses. Partant du vieux principe selon lequel "les ennemis de mes ennemis sont mes amis", Jake Adelstein engage un ancien yakuza, Saigo, qui appartenait à la branche ennemie de Goto. En échange ? Jake doit écrire la biographie de son protecteur. A partir de la vie de cet homme qui a connu l'âge d'or des yakuzas, il dresse une fresque épique de la mafia japonaise, des années 1960 à nos jours. C'est Le Parrain au pays du Soleil-Levant, cela commence sur fond de tatouages sophistiqués et se termine dans les milieux de la finance. Entre-temps, les yakuzas ont perdu leur sens de l'honneur.

The Washington Post Index

Número de Páginas: 1420

Tokyo Vice

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 0

At the age of nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquillity. What he got was a life of crime - crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shimbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour work weeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan's most infamous yakuza boss - and with the threat of death for him and his family - Adelstein decided to step down momentarily. Then, he fought back. In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his transformation from an inexperienced cub reporter to a daring investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and candid exploration of the world of modern-day yakuza that even few Japanese ever see, Tokyo Vice is a fascination, and an education, from first to last.

Tokyo Detective

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 0

The Last Yakuza

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 0

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before in this gripping, true-crime story by the author of Tokyo Vice. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese, living in small-town Japan. He has two talents: playing guitar and picking fights. When his dream of being a rock star fails to materialize, he turns to the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer performance, loyalty, and brute force--the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed Tsunami, quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger. The internal politics of the yakuza are dizzyingly complex, and between the ever-shifting web of alliances and the encroaching hand of the law that pushes them further and further underground, Saigo finds himself in the middle of a defining decades-long battle that will determine the future of the yakuza. Written with the insight of an expert on Japanese organized crime and the compassion of a longtime friend, investigative journalist Jake Adelstein presents a sprawling biography of a...

The Last Yakuza

Autor: Jake Adelstein

Número de Páginas: 398

'Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo Vice 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 from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force - the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed "Tsunami", quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger. The internal politics of the yakuza are dizzyingly complex, and between the ever-shifting web of alliances and the encroaching hand of the law that pushes them further and further underground, Saigo finds himself in the middle of a defining decades-long battle that will determine the future of the yakuza. Written with the insight of an expert on Japanese organized crime and the compassion of a longtime friend, investigative journalist Jake Adelstein presents a sprawling biography of a yakuza, through post-war desperation, to...