With the HBO adaptation of Tokyo Vice now popular the world over, journalist Jake Adelstein returns with a long-awaited sequel: Tokyo Noir.
After fourteen years, Jake Adelstein is back with a new full-length book on Japanese organized crime. The Last Yakuza was worth the wait.
Kinji Fukasaku’s 1970s gangster movies upended decades of depictions of the yakuza and held up a mirror to Japanese society at the same time.
Police in Japan are cracking down on the country’s organized crime orgs. But the criminals aren’t quitting – they’re going underground.
In a continued exclusive for Unseen Japan, Jake Adelstein reflects on writing Tokyo Vice, his true-to-life memoir on the Japanese underworld that spawned the hit HBO show.
In an Unseen Japan exclusive, Jake Adelstein, reporter and basis of HBO’s new series Tokyo Vice, lays down the facts about his life.
A recent robbery in Okinawa highlights something of a trend in generally gun-less Japan: crimes committed with imitation weaponry.
How 2015’s Yakuza 0, dated in Japan’s 1980s, highlights the successes – and excesses – of the country’s Bubble Economy before it burst.
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