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Duration: 60 minutes
Since his early days as an intrepid reporter, Jake Adelstein has been crafting a career as the Virgil of Tokyo’s criminal underworld. Here, Adelstein discusses the incredible events behind Tokyo Vice, his memoir turned silver screen hit, and its sequel, Tokyo Noir, in conversation with a man who knows a thing or two about organised crime: Brisbane’s own Matthew Condon.
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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).
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