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Jake Adelstein is an American journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of Tokyo Vice, a memoir about his experiences as a reporter and his encounters with the yakuza, and the inspiration for a TV series of the same name.
Apr 7, 2022 · 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.
- Paul Shirey
16 hours ago · The Truman Veterans' Hospital is the center of a new podcast, "Witnessed: Night Shift," by "Tokyo Vice" author and Columbia native Jake Adelstein and his co-host Shoko Plambeck.
Apr 7, 2022 · HBO Max's 'Tokyo Vice' is based on the true story of American journalist Jake Adelstein, who worked at a Japanese newspaper reporting on the Yakuza.
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Jake Adelstein is a former Yomiuri Shimbun reporter who wrote a memoir about his years in Tokyo, covering crime, corruption and police. The book was adapted into a 2022 TV series starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe, but faced controversy over its accuracy.
- Jake Adelstein
- 2009
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 by...
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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, alongside...
