Jake Adelstein: Tokyo Vice & Tokyo Noir

Fri 31 May 2024

Jake Adelstein + Matthew Condon

Auditorium 1, slq

Regular Program

1057

#Performances

#About the event

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.

#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).

Matthew Condon

Matthew Condon is a prize-winning Australian novelist and journalist. He began his journalism career with the Gold Coast Bulletin in 1984 and subsequently worked for leading newspapers and journals including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, Melbourne’s Sunday Age and The Courier-Mail. He has written ten books of fiction, including The Trout Opera and is the author of the bestselling true-crime trilogy about Queensland crime and corruption – Three Crooked Kings (2013), Jacks and Jokers (2014), All Fall Down (2015) and Little Fish are Sweet (2016). His most recent book is The Night Dragon (2019). He is the host of two true crime podcasts – Ghost Gate Road and Dig: Sirens Are Coming.