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Joshua Lawrence "Jake" Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American [1] journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which inspired the 2022 Max original streaming television series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort as Adelstein.
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Apr 7, 2022 · Who is the real Jake Adelstein from Tokyo Vice and where is he now? Tokyo Vice is the latest original series from HBO, which stars Ansel Elgort as Jake Adelstein, an American reporter in Japan who covers the crime beat for a prominent newspaper, eventually getting embroiled with the Yakuza in the process.
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Apr 7, 2022 · In 2017, Adelstein became a Zen Buddhist priest. He is also working on a sequel to Tokyo Vice. HBO Max's 'Tokyo Vice' is based on the true story of American journalist Jake Adelstein, who...
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Apr 5, 2024 · Apr 17, 2024 – 5.00am. His friends joke it is a miracle Jake Adelstein made it to 55. The former newspaper crime reporter and expert on Japan’s notorious crime gangs, called the yakuza, lived...
Nov 23, 2022 · Set in Tokyo in the ‘90s, the story follows a young American guy, Jake Adelstein, who becomes the first ever foreigner to get a job as a reporter at Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. However,...
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Mar 22, 2024 · The reporter Jake Adelstein, played by Ansel Elgort, is working on a big story involving a mobster and a high-ranking government official. He arrives at his newsroom, where his editor, played...
Jan 1, 2012 · One of the foremost experts on Japanese organized crime is Jake Adelstein, who grew up on a farm in Missouri, worked as the only American on the crime beat for Japan’s largest newspaper, and...
