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Jake Adelstein
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Investigative Journalist, Freelance
Tokyo
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Biography
I was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shinbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, from 1993 to 2005. From 2006 to 2007 I was the chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Considered an experts on organized crime in Japan, I work as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States. I'm also a board member Washington, D.C. founded Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) was published in 2009. The Last Yakuza : A Life In The Japanese Underworld is coming out in 2014.
sex work, organized crime, japanese subculture kit-kats, police, yakuza buddhism, corporate malfeasance, crimejapan, injustice
akb48, the beatles
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Company Info
Freelance
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States