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Bbc radio 4 book of the week, jake adelstein tokyo. In tokyo vice, jake adelstein tells the story of how he began as a reporter for the biggest news paper in japan and worked his way through the ranks. Tokyo vice is the story of jake adelstein, the only american journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular tokyo metropolitan police press club. An american reporter on the police beat in japan jake adelstein. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Adelstein was a yomiuri newspaper journalist for over 10 years, and as such would have taken detailed notes on activities and would certainly have a deep sense of reporting the truth as he sees it. Adelstein attended college in japan at sophia univ. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading tokyo vice. Jake adelsteins razor straight reporting from the mean streets of tokyo is a coming of age story that reveals more than it pretends tobecause he has the guts to find the truth, and the gall to tell it.
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