Joshua Lawrence Adelstein (1969-03-28) March 28, 1969 (age 55) Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation
Investigative journalist, writer, editor, blogger
Genre
True crime, non-fiction, journalism
Notable works
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld
Children
2
Website
www.japansubculture.com
Joshua Lawrence "Jake" Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American[1] journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which inspired the 2022 Max original streaming television series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort as Adelstein.
^Jake Adelstein, "Yakuza, strippers, drugs, an undercover Japanese-Jew FBI special agent? Pulp non-fiction.", Twitter, June 26, 2015. Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
Joshua Lawrence "Jake" Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan...
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan is a 2009 memoir by JakeAdelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working...
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musical film West Side Story (2021); from 2022 to 2024, he portrayed JakeAdelstein in the crime series Tokyo Vice. Elgort was born in New York City. His...
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Subculture Research Center, by JakeAdelstein "Ties to the Yakuza Are No Laughing Matter", 26 August 2011, JakeAdelstein, The Atlantic Wire "FBI helped...
caused their approval to fall with the general public. According to JakeAdelstein, one study found that 1 in 10 adults under the age of 40 believed that...
writing articles for The Daily Beast alongside American journalist JakeAdelstein. Adelstein's book Tokyo Vice was being adapted into a television series for...
controversial US ‘pick-up artist", Guardian (UK), November 10, 2014 JakeAdelstein "Let's ensure no happy returns to Japan for this vile 'dating coach'"...
in Tokyo Vice, a television series based on the non-fiction book by JakeAdelstein and written for television by J.T. Rogers. The ten-part series was produced...
gender and female sexuality in postwar Japan. Japanese crime writer JakeAdelstein said with regards to sukeban: What is unusual is that in the yakuza...
Tokyo. Pushing the yakuza underground may make Japan less peaceful JakeAdelstein, The Guardian, 8 January 2012 Yakuza gangs face fight for survival as...
yakuza links". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-09-20. "Ties to the Yakuza Are No Laughing Matter", 26 August 2011, JakeAdelstein, The Atlantic Wire v t e...
and could even spark a war for control of the organisation," said JakeAdelstein. This arrest came shortly before the top, Shinobu Tsukasa, was due to...
University of Hawai'i Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8248-1925-5. Yamamoto, JakeAdelstein (10 July 2016). "The Religious Cult Secretly Running Japan". The Daily...
closer ties with the "Shinto establishment". In addition, journalist JakeAdelstein argued that Abe left a legacy vexed by authoritarianism, with his actions...
Yamaguchi-gumi prepares to fete sixth don". Japan Times. Retrieved 12 June 2010. JakeAdelstein (2017). "The Death and Legacy of Yakuza Boss "Mr. Gorilla"". the Daily...
drama television series based on the career of American journalist JakeAdelstein, who explores into the dark and dangerous world of the Japanese Yakuza...
In 2008, a former member of the Goto-gumi yakuza group told reporter JakeAdelstein: "We set it up to stage his murder as a suicide. We dragged him up to...
rights in Japan § Trafficking of persons Crime in Japan Polaris Project JakeAdelstein "Eliminating criminal organizations from red-light districts all over...
because they were allowing yakuza to do many complex transactions," JakeAdelstein, author of "Tokyo Vice" and an expert on Japan's mafia – known as the...
plays the role of Eimi Maruyama, the supervisor of the lead character JakeAdelstein, in the 2022 HBO Max series Tokyo Vice. In August 2022, she portrayed...
publication include notable writers and political activists such as: JakeAdelstein Ayaan Hirsi Ali Samantha Leigh Allen Martin Amis John Avlon Mike Barnicle...
feature film directorial debut with the film Tokyo Vice based on the JakeAdelstein book of the same name. J. T. Rogers would be providing the screenplay...
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