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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Acclaimed investigative journalist Jake Adelstein tells the stranger-than-fiction tale of The Last Yakuza, a ripping yarn about the former mob boss he hired to be his bodyguard. Mapping the shifting currents of modern Japan and the lethal glamour of its criminal underbelly, The Last Yakuza is an unputdownable history of a man’s life outside the law.
#Artists
Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, from 1993 to 2005, and from 2006 to 2007 was the chief investigator for a US State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Adelstein has written for The Daily Beast/Newsweek, The Independent, and The Guardian. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: a Western reporter on the beat in Japan and The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld (2023).
Steve Austin
Steve has presented programs for ABC Radio & Television for thirty years. He has focused primarily on public affairs with a political bent. An interest in Art and what it says about the artist and the audience he believes that Brisbane writer Melissa Lukashenko got it right when she wrote “the audience gives us their trust & we give them new eyes”. Steve aims to approach public affairs from a different angle and draw out the unexpected from guests. He has interviewed every Australian Prime Minister from John Howard to the Present day. He declines to interview celebrities as they tend to be predictable whilst the interesting stories come from unexpected people.
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