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).